dried lake
Evaporated water body
A dried lake is a basin that once held a permanent body of water but no longer does, either through climate change, evaporation, or human diversion of water sources.
The term appears in geography and environmental contexts: The dried lake left behind a flat expanse of cracked mud.
Also called a dry lake or playa.
- salt flatEvaporated lakebed crust
- playaDried lakebed in desert
- salt panDried lakebed mineral deposit
- cracked earthDried ground with fissures
- mud flatsCoastal sediment exposed tidally
cracked mud · basin · evaporated · parched · bone dry · alkali · desert · Death Valley · dusty · dust devil · barren · lakebed · sediment · mineral deposits · arid · rain shadow · drought · brine
- Droughtwater shortage, dry spell, dry spells, no rain, low rainfall
- Outbackoutback, station, red sand, cattle station, dust storm
- drynessarid, aridity, dry, dehydrated, bone dry