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Ecology. Human use. Gallery. See also. References. Bibliography. Dry lake. Namak Lake, Qom Province, Iran. A dry lake bed, also known as a playa ( / ˈplaɪ - ə / ), is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge.
In modern times, it is usually a dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes. The lake reappears during unusually high levels of rainfall or snow melt as it did in 1942, 1969, 1983, 1997, 1998, and 2023.
Dec 8, 2021 · ROGERS DRY LAKE – is an endorheic desert salt pan in the Mojave Desert area of Eastern Kern County; the lake gets its name from the Anglicization from the Spanish name Rodriguez Dry Lake and is the central part of Edwards Air Force Base because its hard surface provides a natural extension to the paved runways.
Rogers Dry Lake (also known as Muroc Dry Lake), at Edwards Air Force Base in California, has been used by the U.S. military since 1933 when a small advance party from March Field in Riverside came to design a bombing range for the Army Air Corps.
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Soda Lake, dry lake in San Bernardino county, southern California, U.S. Situated in the Mojave Desert, Soda Lake is part of what remains of the ancient Ice Age Lake Mojave. It is situated at the terminus of the Mojave River and has no outlet to the sea.
Help. Category:Dry lakes of the United States. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. Delamar Dry Lake (3 F) Jean Dry Lake (6 F) Owens Lake (1 C, 25 F) Racetrack Playa (2 C, 66 F) Rogers Dry Lake (2 C, 20 F) Searles Lake (2 C, 17 F)
