lakebed
Americannoun
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These are hardened, mound-like structures formed by microbial communities on the lakebed.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
“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
With less water running off fields and into the sea, growing stretches of dry lakebed are being exposed to desert winds that kick up lung-damaging dust.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2024
The train carried him to a perpetual dust storm known as Ephrata, Washington, where there was an air base in the middle of a dry lakebed.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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