Salt flats, Salt flat, Salt Flats, or Salt Flat may refer to:

Geology

Salt pan (geology) Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial). A ...

, a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals *

Dry lake A dry lake bed, also known as a playa (), is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkalin ...

, an ephemeral lakebed that consists of fine-grained sediments infused with alkali salts *

Salt marsh A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. I ...

, a coastal ecosystem between land and open saltwater that is regularly flooded, sometimes informally described as a salt flat

Places

Bonneville Salt Flats The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of many salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake. It is public land ma ...

in Tooele County, Utah, United States * Salt Flat, Texas, unincorporated community in Hudspeth County, Texas, United States *

Salar_de_Uyuni Salar de Uyuni (or "Salar de Tunupa") is the world's largest salt flat, or playa, at in area. It is in the Daniel Campos Province in Potosí in southwest Bolivia, near the crest of the Andes at an elevation of above sea level. The Salar wa ...

, Bolivia

Geology

Places

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