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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. 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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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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