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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Area 51 (redirect from Groom Dry Lake Air Force Base)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Endorheic basin (redirect from Terminal Lake)
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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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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Dry Lake is a reservoir in the U.S. state of Nevada. Dry Lake was named for the fact it often contained little water. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic...
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Dry Lake is a lake in the U.S. state of Nevada. Dry Lake was named for the fact its bed most often is dry. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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from a modified Boeing B-52 Stratofortress support plane over Smith Ranch Dry Lake, Nevada, United States. Walker piloted the X-15 to an altitude of 107.96 km...
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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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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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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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Laguna Seca is Spanish for dry lake: the area where the track now lies was once a lake, and the course was built around the dry lake bed. After the course...
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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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/ 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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Coyote Dry Lake is a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, 15 mi (24 km) northeast of Barstow. The lake is approximately...
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