Pans, playas and salt lakes - Arid Zone Geomorphology - page 366

PLAYA LAKE (HIGH PLAINS)
Balte Libya (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Bas-fonde humide France (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Chor Central Asia (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Dayas N. Africa, Qatar (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Dongas Australia (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Freshwater playa (Rettman, 1981)
Small enclosed hollows (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Sor Central Asia (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Transient brine lakes (Gat, 1977)
Vleis Southern Africa (Cooke et al ., 1993)

PLAYA
Alkali lake (Porada & Behr, 1988)
Central salt pan (Christopherson, 1997)
Chott (Reeves, 1968; (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Clay flat (Thompson, 1929)
Continental sabkha (Handford, 1982)
Dariache (Reeves, 1968)
Dried Lake (Heal, 1975)
Dry lake floor (Langer & Kerr, 1966)
Dry saline pan = Qarhan playa (Warren, 1977)
Hemiarid lake basin (Currey, 1994)
Inland closed basin (Rosen, 1991)
Intermittant lake (Davis, 1993; Last, 1994)
Kewire (Reeves, 1968)
Merdja (Reeves, 1968)
Ngor (Carter, 1995)
Nor (Reeves, 1968)
Pijaz (Reeves, 1968)
Plage (Reeves, 1968)
* Playa lake (Russell, 1883)
Pliazh (Reeves, 1968)
Praia (Reeves, 1968)
Sabkha (Neal, 1975)
“Salada” salt lake or playa (Rosen, 1994)
Salina (Rosen, 1994)
Salt flat sabkha (Hussain, 1991)
Salt pan (Kendall, 1992)
Schala (Reeves, 1968)
Sebehet (Reeves, 1968)
Sebka (Reeves, 1968)
Sebkha (Reeves, 1968)
Shallow lake (Last, 1994)
Shott (Reeves, 1968)
Rei (Reeves, 1968)
Takyre = dry lake (Reeves, 1968)
Vlor (Reeves, 1968)

PREVALENT TERMS
Dry lake North America (Thompson, 1929)
Kavir Iran (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)
Mamlahah Arabia (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)
Mier S. Africa (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)
Nor Mongolia (Reeves, 1968)
Pan S. Africa (Neal, 1975; Goudie, 1991)
* Playa North America (Gilbert, 1875; Russell, 1883)
* Sabkha N. Africa, Middle East (Reeves, 1968)
Salar Chile & Peru (Stoertz & Ericksen, 1975)

SABKHA

Chott (Reeves, 1968)
Coastal flats (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Gareat (Smith, 1969)
Sabkhah (Goudarzi, 1975)
Salt flat (Warren, 1989)
Sebcha (Goudarzi, 1975)
Sebchet (Smith, 1969)
Sebjet (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Sebkaha (Reeves, 1968)
Sebkra (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Subacrial mud flat (Warren, 1989)
Transient brine lake (Gat, 1977)
Zahrez (Smith, 1969)

CONTINENTAL SABKHA; INLAND PLAYA
Dry lake (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Inland closed basin (Rosen, 1991)
Mamlahah (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)
Playa (Gilbert, 1875)
Sabkha (Reeves, 1968)
Sabkhah (Cooke et al ., 1993)
* Salina (Rosen, 1994)
Salt playa (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Supralittoral mud flat (Hardie et al ., 1978)

PLAYA MODIFIERS
Alkali playa (White & Youngs, 1980)
Alkaline playa (Southgate et al ., 1989)
Alluvial sandflat playa (Smith & Humphreys, 1989)
Arid zone playas (Renaut, 1994)
Bypass playas (Motts, 1972)
Central playa (Christopherson, 1997)
Claypan playa (Synder, 1962)
Clay playa (Stoertz & Ericksen, 1975)
* Clay-silt playa (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Closed basin playa (Rosen & Warren, 1990)
Coarse-grained playa (Motts, 1972)
Continental playa (Dutkiewicz & von der Borch, 1995)
Crystal body playas (Motts, 1972)
Desert dry playas (Bailey, 1904)
Desert playa (Christopherson, 1997)
Discharge playa (Thompson, 1929)
Dry playa (Thompson, 1929)
Evaporitic playas (De Deckker & Last, 1989)
Feedyard playa (Lehman, 1972)
Fine-grained playa (Motts, 1972)
Ground-water discharge playa (Jacobsen et al ., 1994)
Gypsum playa (Boyd & Kreiler, 1986)
* Inland playa (Cooke et al ., 1993)
Maar-pitted playa (White, 1990)
Microplayas (Currey, 1994)
Modern playas (Jacobsen et al ., 1994)
Moist playas (Thompson, 1929)
Paleodrainage playa (Clarke, 1994)
Recharging playa (Neal, 1975)

SABKHA MODIFIERS

Ancient sabkha (Warren, 1989)
Coastal sabkha (Warren, 1989)
Coastal siliciclastic sabkha (Anderason, 1992)
Continental sabkha (Handford, 1982)
Fossil sabkha (Wood & Wolfe, 1969)
Inland sabkha (Glennie, 1970; Davis, 1993)
Interdune sabkha (Warren, 1989)
Internal sabkha (Cooke et al ., 1982)
Lagoon beach sabkha (Levy & Yitzhak, 1980)
Marine coastal sabkha (Warren, 1989)
Modern marine sabkha (Warren, 1989)
Pan-type sabkha (Gavish, 1980)
Recent sabkha (Gavish, 1980)
Round sabkha (Gavish, 1980)
Sabkha plain (Neal, 1975)
Sabkha pool (Gavish, 1980)
Supratidal sabkha (Gavish, 1980)
Typical sabkha (Gavish, 1980)
Typical supratidal sabkha (Gavish, 1980)

SALINE PLAYA
Kavir Iran (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)
Mamlahah (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)
Salada (Rosen, 1994)
Salar Chile (Stoertz & Ericksen, 1975)
Salt pan S. Africa, U.S. (Rosen, 1994)
Tsaka Mongolia (Shaw & Thomas, 1989)

EPHEMERAL SALINE LAKE
Example: Etosha Pan, S. Africa

MISCELLANEOUS RELATED TERMS
Ancient playa-lake complex (Eugster & Hardie, 1975)

SALINE LAKE