What is "salt flats"

Usage examples of "salt flats".

Thanks to the breeze, the house was floating to the south of the base, and forty meters below lay the edge where the castings pile met the salt flats.

For another, once we had crossed the fairly rugged mountain pass, the march was along the level salt flats bordering the lake, with the serene, whispering waters on our right and the slopes of thick, whispering forests on our left.

He doesn't just halt or back off, either, but turns away and runs across the salt flats in his singular hitching gait, as fast as he can go.

The wall at the far end had a long horizontal slot, glassed over, that revealed a late afternoon panorama of Muriah and the salt flats to the south.

That he could not remember, not if he marched until the bones of his feet rubbed away into powder as white as the salt flats on which he stood.

Down, down, always down into the waste and then down beyond it into the amphitheatre that was the Land of Fire, a desolation of salt flats and gravel and twisting dunes.

I'm sure I'm a damned nuisance, but it's heartbreakingly beautiful out there -the glittering blue-green sea, the long white sand beach, blinding as snow, and then the slate-gray salt flats, the brackish lakes, the yellow and red sands of the desert dotted with brush-and oh, the sunsets and the clear starlit nights!

He had a good ten miles to cover across the salt flats to reach Furnace Creek Ranch, slowed by the pace of his overloaded mule.

Across the shimmering Salt Flats ahead they could see a blur of dust approaching.

It would endure after everything on the bay that night had gone to rust, for it was generic, born of the salt flats and heavy dredging, while the brightly lighted steamers were commercial innovations useful for the moment but bearing little relation to the timeless bay.