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Namak Lake, Qom Province, Iran. A dry lake bed, also known as a playa (/ ˈ p l aɪ-ə /), 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 alkaline compounds, it is known as an alkali flat.
Satellite imagery over Iran from 1984 to 2014 revealing Lake Urmia's diminishing surface area. A number of natural lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry owing to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow.
Tulare Lake was nearly dry by the early 20th century. Swedish naturalist Gustav Eisen, who crossed the lake by steamboat in 1878 and undertook an excavation of Sand Ridge probably that same year, celebrated the desiccation. [21] He wrote, In my opinion the drying up of Tulare Lake is a good thing.
Owens Lake is a dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Lone Pine . Unlike most dry lakes in the Basin and Range Province that have been dry for thousands of years, Owens held significant water until 1913, when much of the Owens River was diverted ...
My leading theory was that the 2020 Stanley earthquake opened up a fissure under the lake and drained it into an underground aquifer. But the explanation is probably simpler than that. | Opinion
The federal government said Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, it will spend $250 million over four years on environmental cleanup and restoration work around the Salton Sea, a drying Southern California lake ...
STORY: Drone footage taken on Sunday (August 28, 2022) shows the dramatic impact of a long drought and heatwave on a vital part of the country's irrigation infrastructure.Poyang is known as the ...
The Willcox Playa is a large endorheic dry lake or sink (playa) adjacent to Willcox, Arizona in Cochise County, in the southeast corner of the state. It is part of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion and is the remnant of a Pleistocene era pluvial Lake Cochise.