dry lakes
Evaporated desert basins
Dry lakes are lake beds that contain water only occasionally or seasonally, remaining parched most of the time.
Common in desert regions, they form flat, often cracked surfaces of dried mud or salt deposits.
The term appears frequently in geographic names: Dry Lake, Rogers Dry Lake.
Also called playas or salt flats depending on their composition.
- playaDried lakebed in desert
- panShallow cooking vessel
- dustFine settled particles
- salt flatEvaporated lakebed crust
- saltSodium chloride compound
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- Droughtwater shortage, no rain, low rainfall, parched earth, parched land
- American desertsMojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Death Valley, Painted Desert, Mojave
- desert hydrologywadis, oases, arroyos, playas, wells
- Sahara ecologyfennec fox, dromedary, dromedaries, camels, dunes
- Southwest TerrainGrand Canyon, Monument Valley, mesas, buttes, canyons
- Basin and RangeGreat Basin, White Mountains, Death Valley, Great Salt Lake, graben
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Large inland water bodies
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