: a salt-encrusted flat area resulting from evaporation of a former body of water
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Patrick Donnelly and Naomi Fraga in a salt flat on the edge of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.—Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite recently captured this false-color image of salt flats and lakes in southwest Bolivia, nearby to the Andes Mountains.—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for salt flat
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