Dry lake

An ephemeral lake of an arid or semiarid region, typically found at low elevation points in desert valleys. They are topographically flat areas, support sparse vegetation, and contain fine-grained, consolidated sediments that are deposited during precipitation runoff events where the water temporally ponds and then infiltrates to groundwater aquifers or evaporates. The surface sediments of dry lakes can often have high concentrations of dissolved minerals.