alkali flat
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When I was overcome with exhaustion, my sway morphing into a semi-conscious stupor, I knew it was time to go — the only thing separating me from my air mattress being a vast alkali flat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Centuries of evaporation have transformed this ancient lake bed into a dry alkali flat, inhabited today by a migratory roost of 30,000 sandhill cranes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
When the ceremony outgrew the beach, in the early 1990s, the burn was moved to a barren alkali flat in an empty corner of northwest Nevada.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2012
What we see here is a typical alkali flat, left when melting snow water and spring rains had passed.
From Time Magazine Archive
A whitish glare was reflected from an alkali flat in the bottom of a shallow basin.
From The Settling of the Sage by Hal G. (Hal George) Evarts
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