NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Salt pan

Salt pan (geology), a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually found in deserts.
Salt pan (evaporation), A method of salt winning by evaporating brine.

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Categories: Disambiguation A salt pan is a geological formation found in deserts. ... Salt Pans were large shallow open pans used to evaporate brine for the production of salt. ... A magnified crystal of a salt (halite/sodium chloride) In chemistry, a salt is any ionic compound composed of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions so that the product is neutral and without a net charge. ... Brine is water saturated or nearly saturated with salt. ...

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Natimuk-Douglas Wetland Management Plan (471 words)
	The larger salt pans include Olivers Lake, Lake Wyn Wyn and Mitre Lake in the north, and White Lake, Centre Lake and North Lake near Douglas.
	The salt pans are a unique feature in the landscape due to their distinctive flora and fauna.
	The salt pans are surrounded by salt tolerant vegetation, including samphire flats (halophytic shrublands) and closed Salt Paperbark forests.

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Salt pans (428 words)
	A salt pan would be a lake or a pond if it was in a location in a climate where the rate of water evaporation wasn't faster than the rate of water precipitation, i.e., if it wasn't in a desert.
	The two best-known salt pans in the USA are probably the one where Burning Man Festival is held, and the Salt Lake Desert, a vast flat plain where many land speed records have been set.
	Salt taxes were one of the complaints leading to toppling China's Imperial government in the early 20th Century and remain important in China today (as well as an inducement to salt smuggling).

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