lake bed
Underwater sediment basin
The bottom of a lake—the surface beneath the water, or what remains when a lake dries up.
Lake beds may be muddy, sandy, or rocky.
Dried lake beds, sometimes called playas, appear in desert regions where ancient lakes once existed: We hiked across the cracked lake bed.
- sedimentParticles settling in liquid
- mudWet soil mixture
- siltWaterborne earth particles
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- dryFree from moisture
dried up · cracked · cracked earth · basin · reservoir · playa · salt flat · bottom · sand · drought · dead pool · fish kill · receding · deposits · low tide · algae · reeds · murky
- hollowscavity, crater, hollow, dent, hole
- bottombottom line, bottom rung, underside, underneath, beneath
- Great Salt Lakebrine shrimp, salt flats, hypersaline, salinity, Jordan River
- land depressionscrater, caldera, sinkhole, depression, valley
- salt flatssalt flats, salt flat, salt pan, playas, salt deposits
- freshwater sciencewater chemistry, dissolved oxygen, thermocline, stratification, turnover
lake bedlake surface
Top plane of lake
water surface · surface · shoreline · waterline · lakeshore
lake beddry land
Earth above water
upland · highland · terra firma · riverbank · mountaintop
lake bedmountain peak
Topmost point of elevation
summit · mountaintop · hilltop · ridge · plateau
lake, bed, lakes, beds, bedded, bedding, bedside, bedroom, seabed