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Natural Features & Formations:
Dry Lakes - PlayasEndorheic BasinsIn 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.
Bonnie Clare Dry Lake Bristol Dry Lake Broadwell Dry Lake Coyote Dry Lake Cronise (East) Cronise (West) Dale Dry Lake El Mirage Dry Lake Emerson Dry Lake Galway Dry Lake Harper Dry Lake Ivanpah Dry Lake Koehn Dry Lake - Lucerne Dry Lake Racetrack Playa [Satellite Image] Red Lake Reeves Dry Lake Searles Dry Lake Silurian Dry Lake Silver Lake Soda Lake [Satellite Image] Soggy Dry Lake Superior Dry Lake (East) Superior Dry Lake (Central) Troy Dry Lake |
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.![]() Also see: Changing Climates and Ancient Lakes... although glaciers did not form in the Mojave region, the overall wetter and cooler conditions that existed during glaciation periods had an impact on ...Dry lake formation in the Mojave Desert... These perennial water bodies completely dried up about 8,000 years ago. Today they flood only after seasonal storms provide flashflood waters, or ... |
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