salt laken.
A saline lake, usually one with no outlet to the sea so that salts brought in by rivers accumulate in it; esp. one which is not particularly alkaline (cf. bitter lake n. at bitter adj. and n.1 Compounds 2).
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slough1714
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bayou1766
lagoon1769
cut-off1773
prairie1820
maar1826
boating lake1834
serpentine1837
soda lake1839
bitter lake1843
stream-lake1867
shott1878
crater-lake1879
playa1885
oxbow lake1887
kettle-hole lake1902
mortlake1902
oxbow1902
seepage lake1934
paternoster lake1942
soda pan1976
the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > salt or soda lake
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natron lake1821
soda lake1839
bitter lake1843
shott1878
soda pan1976
1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. 289 We set up our tents near a lake of brackish water, called Solonoy-Osera, or the salt lake.
1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. 326 The 22d, we quitted the salt lake.
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 343/2 A great number of smaller and larger salt lakes.
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. ii. 395 Saline lakes, considered chemically, may be grouped as salt lakes, where the chief constituents are sodium and magnesium chlorides with magnesium and calcium sulphates: and bitter lakes, which usually are distinguished by their large percentage of sodium carbonate as well as chloride and sulphate.
1923 J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist i. 34 A salt-lake shrimp could tolerate an even higher concentrate of brine.
1970 H. H. Read Rutley's Elem. Mineral. (ed. 26) i. v. 212 Exogenetic deposits are due to surface-processes such as deposition in a salt-lake or sorting by river-action.
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