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Figure 3-23.
Playa basins on the nearly l at, featureless High Plains in west-central Kansas, United States.
Ephemeral lake in a playa depression during a wet period (see Color Plate 3-23). Water i lls a shallow basin in a
fallow i eld with winter wheat i elds in the background. Kite aerial photograph; after Aber and Aber (2009, Fig. 17).
Figure 3-24.
Highly exaggerated, shaded-relief digital elevation model. Numerous closed depressions (playas) are
evident. Derived from 1-arc-second (
30 m) National Elevation Dataset from the U.S. Geological Survey (http://
seamless.usgs.gov/). Image processing by J.S. Aber with Idrisi Taiga software.
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