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salt flat
The dried-up bed of an enclosed stretch of water that has evaporated, leaving the salts that is held in solution as a crust on the ground. Best known are the Lake Bonneville flats, near Salt lake City, Utah. See also evaporites.
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• GEOLOGY AND PLANETARY SCIENCESource: U.S. Geological Survey
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