单词 | playa flat |
释义 | > as lemmasplaya flat C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as playa deposit, playa flat, playa mud, playa plain, etc. ΚΠ 1884 Science 18 July 64/2 Then it dried away gradually and probably completely, and its residual salt was buried beneath fine clay, or ‘playa deposits’. 1939 P. G. Worcester Textbk. Geomorphol. ix. 247 Two types of sloping plains usually connect the borders of desert basins with the flat central playa plains. These are bajadas and pediments. 1973 Nature 20 July 145/1 The Triassic sabkhas were not all coastal sabkhas, or tidal flats, some may have been continental sabkhas, or playa flats. 1999 Rock & Gem Dec. 69/2 Fierce winds..push the rocks across slippery playa muds when they are saturated by rare episodes of Death Valley precipitation. < as lemmas |
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