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Definition of Salt flat
1. Noun. A flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water.
Definition of Salt flat
1. Noun. A dry lake bed consisting primarily of salt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salt Flat
Literary usage of Salt flat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1893)
"In the bottom of the valley was the snow-white stretch of salt and alkali, and
to the northward, perhaps ">() miles away, mountains, valleys, and salt-flat ..."
2. Results of Spirit Leveling in Arizona, 1899-1909, Inclusive by R. B. Marshall (1911)
"5.5 miles north of, 2.5 miles south of Medley's lower ranch, 30 feet east of Salt
Flat-Valentine road; iron i»st stamped "3729 VAN HN 1905" ..."
3. Narrative of the War with China in 1860: To which is Added the Account of a by Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (1862)
"By the night of the 20th August all was in train for this movement, and a road
constructed over the great salt flat which extended to the north and west of ..."
4. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"This salt-flat varies from 20 to 50 rods in width, and has a length of between
three and four miles. Its upper end is ensconced in the depths of the canyon, ..."
5. The Century (1902)
"For this is the salt-flat, the waste of all wastes, where nothing grows and
nothing lives. The soil is dry and hot, the sky overhead brazen with heat, ..."
6. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"... occupying a depression which could be filled to a depth of 640 feet above the
present salt flat before it would overflow into the Panamint Valley to the ..."
7. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1893)
"In the bottom of the valley was the snow-white stretch of salt and alkali, and
to the northward, perhaps ">() miles away, mountains, valleys, and salt-flat ..."
8. Results of Spirit Leveling in Arizona, 1899-1909, Inclusive by R. B. Marshall (1911)
"5.5 miles north of, 2.5 miles south of Medley's lower ranch, 30 feet east of Salt
Flat-Valentine road; iron i»st stamped "3729 VAN HN 1905" ..."
9. Narrative of the War with China in 1860: To which is Added the Account of a by Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (1862)
"By the night of the 20th August all was in train for this movement, and a road
constructed over the great salt flat which extended to the north and west of ..."
10. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1897)
"This salt-flat varies from 20 to 50 rods in width, and has a length of between
three and four miles. Its upper end is ensconced in the depths of the canyon, ..."
11. The Century (1902)
"For this is the salt-flat, the waste of all wastes, where nothing grows and
nothing lives. The soil is dry and hot, the sky overhead brazen with heat, ..."
12. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"... occupying a depression which could be filled to a depth of 640 feet above the
present salt flat before it would overflow into the Panamint Valley to the ..."
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