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playaor pan or flat or dry lakeFlat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. The water that periodically covers the playa slowly filters into the groundwater system or evaporates into the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand, and mud along the bottom and around the edges of the depression. playa [′plīยทə] (geology) A low, essentially flat part of a basin or other undrained area in an arid region. A small, generally sandy land area at the mouth of a stream or along the shore of a bay. A flat, alluvial coastland, as distinguished from a beach. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In an area of typically inland drainage, Devils Lake can range from a dry lakebed to more than 400 sq mi (1,040 sq km) in size, at which point it drains into the Sheyenne and Red rivers. They were formed beginning in 1961 after Los Angeles County built a dike along Avenue C to prevent treated effluent from its District 14 Wastewater Treatment Plant from flowing onto the Rosamond Dry Lakebed. In the center of a vast dry lakebed, a squad of soldiers from the nation's first Stryker brigade combat team has just launched a Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle for a five-hour training mission. |
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