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salt flat

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salt flat [′sȯlt ‚flat]
(geology)
The level, salt-encrusted bottom of a lake or pond that is temporarily or permanently dried up.


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This trek started May 6 north of Wendover, Utah, at a place called Donner Springs, where the Donner family and their wagon-train companions ended a disastrous shortcut that took them through the Wasatch Mountains east of what is now Salt Lake City and across Utah's salt flats.
In spite of a yield curve whose topographical equivalent is starting to look something like the Bonneville Salt Flats, real estate experts are predicting economic conditions that bode well for the strength of the commercial leasing and real estate investment sales markets.
For the past 19 years over 25,000 boheminas have gathered in a remote northern Nevada desert to invent a surreal city for a week on a featureless salt flat 120 miles outside Reno.
 
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