salt pans
Dried mineral lakes
Salt pans are shallow basins where seawater or brine evaporates to leave salt deposits.
They may be natural depressions in coastal or desert areas, or constructed pools for commercial salt harvesting.
The term also refers to the encrusted flats left behind: We drove across the salt pans of the Bonneville flats.
A salt pan can also be a pan used for evaporating brine.
Liquid turning to gas
- brineWater saturated with sodium
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- rakingDragging tines across ground
- dryingMoisture removal process
solar · concentration · saturation · pond · channel · sluice · yield · season
Dried lakebed in desert
- flatsDwellings or low shoes
- basinConcave water receptacle
- depressionProlonged low state
- dry lakeEvaporated basin floor
mudflat · crust · horizon · terrain · Bonneville · Death Valley · badlands
Act of removing
- miningExtracting earth's resources
- haliteCrystalline sodium chloride ore
- depositPlace for safekeeping
- productionMaking or generating something
excavation · processing · conveyor · heavy machinery · refinery · commercial · export · trade
Clear, ordered, brilliant
- shimmerTremulous, wavering light
- glistenShine with reflected light
- reflectiveCasting back light
- whiteAbsence of pigment
mirror · vast · stark · desolate · otherworldly · surreal · photography · sunrise
Pink wading bird
- brine shrimpTiny saline-water crustacean
- salineSalt-water solution
- algaePrimitive aquatic photosynthesizers
- microorganismMicroscopic living entity
extremophile · adaptation · biodiversity · waterbird · migration · breeding ground · wetland · conservation
evaporation
Liquid turning to gas
- brineWater saturated with sodium
- crystallizationForming ordered solid structure
- rakingDragging tines across ground
drying · solar · concentration · saturation · pond · channel · sluice · yield · season · crust
playa
Dried lakebed in desert
- flatsDwellings or low shoes
- basinConcave water receptacle
- depressionProlonged low state
dry lake · mudflat · crust · horizon · terrain · Bonneville · Death Valley · badlands
extraction
Act of removing
production · excavation · processing · conveyor · heavy machinery · refinery · commercial · export · trade · resource
crystalline
Clear, ordered, brilliant
- shimmerTremulous, wavering light
- glistenShine with reflected light
- reflectiveCasting back light
white · mirror · vast · stark · desolate · otherworldly · surreal · photography · sunrise · sunset
flamingo
Pink wading bird
- brine shrimpTiny saline-water crustacean
- salineSalt-water solution
- algaePrimitive aquatic photosynthesizers
microorganism · extremophile · adaptation · biodiversity · waterbird · migration · breeding ground · wetland · conservation · salinity
- African Safarielephant, elephants, lions, zebras, zebra
- child laborchild labor, child workers, child labor laws, bonded labor, debt bondage
- KalahariKalahari Desert, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, gemsbok
- salt depositshalite, evaporites, brine, natron, Dead Sea
- salt marshescordgrass, glasswort, mud flats, mudflats, samphire
- Salt sourcesunderground mines, Wieliczka
salt pansfreshwater lakes
Non-marine standing bodies
glacial lakes · freshwater ponds · freshwater marshes · rivers · mountain springs
salt pansoceans
Vast saltwater bodies
reservoirs · seas · fjords · abyssal depths · Lake Baikal
salt pansrainforests
Wet, dense tropical woodlands
swamps · bogs · wetlands · marshlands · peat bogs