salt crust
Dried ocean residue
A salt crust is a layer of salt that forms on a surface, either naturally through evaporation a salt crust on the desert floor or deliberately in cooking.
In the kitchen, a salt crust encases meat or fish during roasting—the hardened shell seals in moisture and flavor, then gets cracked and discarded before serving: We baked the whole fish in a salt crust.
- playaDried lakebed in desert
- haliteCrystalline sodium chloride ore
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- encrustingForming a hardened covering
- desiccationComplete removal of moisture
fleur de sel · crystallization · efflorescence · cracked earth · preservation · gypsum · sediment layers · brining · seasoning · caliche · Dead Sea · crackle · white · deposit · sodium · dried · alkaline · mineral
- salthalite, sodium chloride, fleur de sel, saltworks, brine
- residueresidue, buildup, film, scum, grime
- Great Salt Lakebrine shrimp, hypersaline, Jordan River, causeway, lake shores
- natural salt sourcesbrine, mineral deposit
- salt lakessoda lake, dry lake, playa
- Makgadikgadi Pansflamingos, seasonal flooding, dry season, wet season, brine shrimp
salt crustbedrock
Solid stone underground
granite · basalt · metamorphic rock · limestone · magma
salt crusttopsoil
Nutrient-rich surface earth
humus · mud · standing water · ice sheet · leaf litter
salt, crust, saline, crustacean, encrust, salinity, incrustation