Category
page 1Salt flats
salt pan
flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals
Chott el Djerid
chott in Tunisia
Rann of Kutch
large area of salt marshes in Gujarat, India, and Sindh, Pakistan
dry lake
depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge

sabkha
thumb|upright=1.5|Sebkhat (or Sebkha) El Melah, Tunisia in 2001, mostly dry. Note rectangular industrial evaporite pans, probably for sea-salt production, upper right. Landsat 7 image.
thumb|upright=1.5|Sebkhat El Melah in 1987, flooded. Landsat 5 image.
Takir
Mudcrucs soil
chott
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In geology, a chott, shott, or shatt (; ) is a salt lake in Africa's Maghreb that stays dry for much of the year but receives some water in the winter. The elevation of a chott surface is controlled by the position of the water table and capillary fringe, with sediment deflation occurring when the water table falls and sediment accumulation occurring when the water table rises. They are formed—within variable shores—by the spring thaw from the Atlas mountain range, along with occasional rainwater or groundwater sources in the Sahara, such as the Bas Saharan Basin.
Chott el Hodna
lake
Sabkhat al-Jabbul
lake in Syria
Lake Salinas
salt lake in Peru
Qarhan Playa
Large salt flat in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China
sor
closed, drainless depression
Sebkha de Ndrhamcha
saltpan in Mauritania
Salt storm