Playa

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Solar Energy

Flat areas that contain seasonal or year-to-year shallow lakes that often evaporate, leaving minerals behind. Playas form in arid basins where rivers merge, but do not drain.

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) — Solar Energy Development PEIS Glossary retrieved 2014-06-15

Science

Water

An intermittent shallow lake formed at the bottom of an undrained desert basin after heavy rains.

Bureau of Reclamation — Bureau of Reclamation Glossary