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Bookmark or Share- List of drying lakes - WikipediaSatellite imagery over Iran from 1984 to 2014 revealing Lake Urmia's diminishing surface area. A number of natural lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry owing to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow.
- Playa | Geology, Hydrology & Ecology | BritannicaPlayas affected by occasional surface floods are usually dry. Their surfaces consist of silt and clay deposited by the floodwaters that enter closed basins during the occasional flow events. Salts develop as ponded floodwater in the centre of such a basin gradually evaporates.
- Dry lake - WikipediaA dry lake is formed when water from rain or other sources, like intersection with a water table, flows into a dry depression in the landscape, creating a pond or lake. If the total annual evaporation rate exceeds the total annual inflow, the depression will eventually become dry again, forming a dry lake.
- Taking a closer look at dry lakes and their impactWhen lakes dry (continuously or seasonally), the dried, exposed land is often referred to as a playa. These flat, dry, vegetation-free areas form at the lowest elevations of undrained desert basins, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Dispersed-Jean/Roach Dry Lakes - Bureau of Land ManagementAt the center of the area is the area's namesake, Jean Dry Lake. Although the name implies that the lakebed is dry, it has the potential of flooding and holding water long after a rainfall. After substantial precipitation events, the lakebed can hold several inches to several feet of water.
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