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    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...
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    a dry lake. Man alive, we looked at that lake, and we all looked at each other. It was another Edwards, so we wheeled around, landed on that lake, taxied...
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    Rogers Dry Lake is an endorheic desert salt pan in the Mojave Desert of Kern County, California. The lake derives its name from the Anglicization from...
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    Lake was dried up by diverting its tributary rivers for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses. In modern times, it is usually a dry lake with...
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  • A number of natural lakes throughout the world are drying or completely dry due to irrigation or urban use diverting inflow. Map all coordinates using...
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    the lake's watershed that is part of the Escalante–Sevier hydrologic subregion. The lake has been mostly dry throughout recorded history and its dry lakebed...
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    Groom Lake is a dry lake, also described as a salt flat, in Nevada. It is used for runways of the Nellis Bombing Range Test Site airport (KXTA). Part of...
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    by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from the ocean, although they may be connected with the ocean by rivers, such as Lake Ontario...
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  • A dry lake is an ephemeral lakebed. Dry Lake may also refer to: Dry Lake (Churchill County, Nevada) Dry Lake (Esmeralda County, Nevada) Dry Lake (Codington...
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    / 33.336°N 116.289°W / 33.336; -116.289 Naval Outlying Field Clark's Dry Lake was a United States Navy facility built for World War 2. The site had two...
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    Papoose Lake is a dry lake bed located in Lincoln County, Nevada, U.S. The lake lies within the plot of land referred to as the Groom Lake facility (also...
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    Delamar Dry Lake is a dry lake bed located in the Dry Lake Watershed near Alamo in Lincoln County, Nevada. It is located on federal land administered by...
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  • Dry Lake is a natural lake in Codington County, South Dakota, in the United States found at an elevation of 1,742 feet (531 m). Dry Lake received its name...
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    often contain extensive salt pans (also called salt flats, salt lakes, alkali flats, dry lake beds, or playas). These areas tend to be large, flat hardened...
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  • Yelland Dry Lake, also known as Dry Lakes is a playa and flat in Spring Valley in White Pine County, Nevada. Its lowest point lies at an elevation of...
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    Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km)...
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  • The Battle of Dry Lake, also known as Sorass Lake, was the first decisive victory of the United States over the Modoc Indians in northern California in...
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    The groundwater beneath saline or dry lakes often has brines with chemistry similar to that of the lakes or former lakes. The chemistry of shallow brines...
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  • Eldorado Dry Lake is a playa in the Eldorado Valley in Clark County, Nevada. It lies at an elevation of 1,708 feet at the bottom of the basin of Eldorado...
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    Ralph, Clifford and Effie Corum built a homestead on the edge of Rogers Dry Lake. The Corums proved instrumental in attracting other settlers and building...
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    Rosamond Lake is a natural dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of Kern and Los Angeles County, California. The shores of the lake are entirely within the...
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  • lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes in the U.S. state of California. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed...
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    within the Dry Valleys exist. The region is one of the world's most extreme deserts, and includes many features including Lake Vida, a saline lake, and the...
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  • Dry Lake is an ephemeral body of water in Young County, New South Wales, Australia, north of Wilcannia, New South Wales. Dry Lake has a Köppen climate...
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    Ivanpah Lake is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California on the border of California and Nevada. Nestled in the Ivanpah...
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  • The Dry Lake Range is a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada. "Dry Lake Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey...
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  • Dry Lake Valley is a Basin and Range landform in Lincoln County within the Dry Lake Watershed between the North Pahroc Range to the west and the Black...
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    Desert, a dry lake bed. Northwest Lahontan subregion in Nevada-part of the Northern Basin and Range (ecoregion) Black Rock Desert, a dry lake bed. Great...
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    Searles Lake is an endorheic dry lake in the Searles Valley of the Mojave Desert, in northwestern San Bernardino County, California. The lake in the past...
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    Hanna Lake. During years 2000–2010 Hanna Lake dried up and the natives along with hundreds of migrated birds were in trouble. However, in 2011 the lake re-filled...
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