![]() Salt pans occur naturally, and consist of a variety of minerals and sediments in the form of salts. Salt is often associated with oceans and sea water, but there is another natural phenomenon in which salt is abundant, and this is known as a salt flat, or salt pan. Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt pan.These pans usually occur in dry hot climates where the rate of water evaporation is far greater than the rate of precipitation.Salt pans, or salt salts are areas where bodies of water have evaporated, leaving behind expanses of minerals and salts. ![]() Meaning, more water coming from the Silver Island Mountains.The world's largest salt flat, Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. Keach believes that groundwater is the key to increasing the size of the Bonneville Salt Flats. “They’ve been doing this historically for a long time.” “You can go into Google Earth and look, in an ad hoc way, and look at the last thirty years, or forty years of imagery across the salt flat … and you see the salt flat expand and contract,” Keach said. The idea is to add more water to the surface, which leads to evaporation, and more salt “growing.”īut Keach said a more scientific approach is needed that directs how much water to lay down, and when to lay it down. Keach said that projects have been proposed that would manually pump salt water from beneath the flats to the surface of the flats. ![]() Reversing the shrinking Bonneville Salt Flats? So how are the two related? As the Great Salt Lake decreases, and the thickness of the flats decreases, the racing distance gets shorter. And the surface, which isn’t 100% dry, keeps tire temperatures down at high speeds.
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