Dry Lakes - Playas
In desert basins, where rivers merge but do not drain, a dry lake bed or playa may form. Playas usually appear to be flat and featureless areas that contain seasonal, shallow lakes that often evaporate quickly, sometimes leaving salt deposits behind.Many of the dry lakes along the Mojave River were water-filled lakes at one time. The model of the Natural Mojave River illustrates how they may have looked and interacted thousands of years ago.
Anderson
Bristol
Broadwell
Coyote
Cronise (East)
Cronise (West)
Dale
El Mirage
Emerson
Galway
Harper
Koehn
Lucerne
Racetrack Playa
Fairview
Searles
Silurian
Silver Lake
Soda Lake
Soggy
Superior (East)
Superior (Central)
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