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  2. Salt pan (geology) - Wikipedia

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    The Etosha pan, in the Etosha National Park in Namibia, is another prominent example of a salt pan. The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the largest salt pan in the world. As of 2024, with an estimated 23 million tons , Bolivia holds about 22% of the world's known lithium resources (105 million tons); most of those are in the Salar de Uyuni. [ 3 ]

  3. Bonneville Salt Flats - Wikipedia

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    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 managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is known for land speed records at the Bonneville Speedway ...

  4. Makgadikgadi Pan - Wikipedia

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    The largest individual pan is about 1,900 sq mi (4,921.0 km 2). In comparison, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is a single salt flat of 4,100 sq mi (10,619.0 km 2), rarely has much water, and is generally claimed to be the world's largest salt pan. A dry, salty, clay crust most of the year, the pans are seasonally covered with water and grass, and ...

  5. Salt evaporation pond - Wikipedia

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    A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines. The salt pans are shallow and expansive, allowing sunlight to penetrate and reach the seawater. Natural salt pans are formed through geologic processes, where evaporating water leaves behind salt deposits.

  6. Dry lake - Wikipedia

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    If its basin is primarily salt, then a dry lake bed is called a salt pan, pan, or salt flat (the latter being a remnant of a salt lake). Hardpan is the dry terminus of an internally drained basin in a dry climate, a designation typically used in the Great Basin of the western United States. [citation needed] The Chott el Djerid in Tunisia

  7. Salt pannes and pools - Wikipedia

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    Salt marsh showing salt pannes and ponds, spartina alternifolia and invasive phragmites communis in foreground. Brackish marsh panne variants occur in brackish marshes (short graminoid variant), one of the native dominant species is spike grass (Distichlis spicata), some brackish marsh pannes are dominated by the narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia) an invasive exotic species.

  8. Death Valley National Park - Wikipedia

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    The largest salt pan in the park extends 40 miles (64 km) from the Ashford Mill Site to the Salt Creek Hills, covering some 200 square miles (520 km 2) of the valley floor. [ 14 ] [ note 1 ] The best known playa in the park is the Racetrack , known for its moving rocks.

  9. Salt pan - Wikipedia

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    Salt pans can refer to: Salt pan (geology) , a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually found in deserts Sabkha , a phonetic translation of the Arabic word for a salt pan (geology)