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salt pan
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salt pan [′sȯlt ‚pan]
(chemistry)
A pool used for obtaining salt by the natural evaporation of sea water.
(geology)
An undrained, usually small and shallow, natural depression or hollow in which water accumulates and evaporates, leaving a salt deposit.
A shallow lake of brackish water occupying such a depression.


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This latest building, the Chichu Art Museum, extends the notion of subterranean excavation even further; here the entire volume is set underground to preserve the surrounding salt pans.
For centuries it has been home to ocean-going cod fishing fleets and flat-bottomed skiffs that skim lightly around the salt pans at the mouth of the Aveiro river in search of shellfish and seaweed.
 
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