lakebed
Americannoun
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“The playa,” a nearly six-square-mile patch on a 200-mile Pleistocene era lakebed, is what Burners call the festival zone.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025
The prehistoric lakebed is located about 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, and saw its first motorised race in 1914.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
In other areas, thousands of hay bales have been placed in rows on the lakebed to help control dust.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024
In 1913, paleontologists digging in a remote lakebed in South Australia unearthed the 50,000-year-old bones of a giant, flightless bird—a species previously unknown to science.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 3, 2024
The lakebed was on a mission to bury the base, the men, and all of their planes, and it was succeeding.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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