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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.
Rogers Dry Lake is an endorheic desert salt pan in the Mojave Desert of Kern County, California. The lake derives its name from the Anglicization from the Spanish name, Rodriguez Dry Lake . [ 4 ] It is the central part of Edwards Air Force Base as its hard surface provides a natural extension to the paved runways.
It is part of the Sonoran Desert ecoregion and is the remnant of a Pleistocene era pluvial Lake Cochise. The playa itself is roughly 8 miles (13 km) wide by 10 miles (16 km) long, with an area of approximately 40 square miles (100 km 2). Portions of the dry lake bed have been used as a bombing range by the US military.
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 ...
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 ...
Searles Lake is an endorheic dry lake in the Searles Valley of the Mojave Desert, in northwestern San Bernardino County, California. The lake in the past was also called Slate Range Lake and Borax Lake .