: a salt-encrusted flat area resulting from evaporation of a former body of water
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The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as a proxy for Mars by researchers.—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 20 Feb. 2025 The bones were uncovered near a salt flat in the Anacleto Formation in northern Patagonia, Argentina and found among fossils of ancient snails, garfishes, crocodile relatives, clams, freshwater turtles, and other organisms.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2025 Today, this area is known as the Anacleto Formation in northern Patagonia in Argentina and consists of a massive salt flat.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025 Some communities around the salt flat have accepted compensation from the companies that set up there.—Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for salt flat
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