sabkha

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Sabkha is an Arabic name for a salt-flat ordinarily found nearby sand dunes. These relatively flat and very saline areas of sand or silt form just above the water-table where the sand is cemented together by evaporite salts from seasonal ponds.

 
 

Posted by NPS Staff on Jan 16, 2003 

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