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单词 salt flats
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Definition of salt flats in English:

salt flats

plural noun
  • Areas of flat land covered with a layer of salt.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the early spring, flamingos land on the salt flats while in the autumn, the Cypriots celebrate the harvest of the vines with a wine festival.
    • The water level has receded to expose the entire site, leaving the work as a low white spiral mound embedded in blindingly white salt flats.
    • Overnight, the rising of the water table beneath the salt flats meant that large areas - which had previously been usable - became marshy.
    • Light can be blinding on the high altitude salt flats, or dense and green in the rainforest.
    • However, most modern evaporites form in shallow-water marine lagoons or on wide coastal salt flats, and this prompted some geologists to argue that all evaporites were of shallow-water origin.
 
 

Definition of salt flats in US English:

salt flats

plural nounsɔlt flæts
  • Areas of flat land covered with a layer of salt.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The water level has receded to expose the entire site, leaving the work as a low white spiral mound embedded in blindingly white salt flats.
    • In the early spring, flamingos land on the salt flats while in the autumn, the Cypriots celebrate the harvest of the vines with a wine festival.
    • Overnight, the rising of the water table beneath the salt flats meant that large areas - which had previously been usable - became marshy.
    • However, most modern evaporites form in shallow-water marine lagoons or on wide coastal salt flats, and this prompted some geologists to argue that all evaporites were of shallow-water origin.
    • Light can be blinding on the high altitude salt flats, or dense and green in the rainforest.
 
 
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