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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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