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the ground that was patient enough to wait for the water to leave.
means The bottom surface of a lake — the sloping, sediment-covered ground beneath the water, often exposed when the lake dries up or recedes.
from A plain English compound of 'lake' and 'bed.' 'Lake' came through Old French 'lac' from Latin 'lacus' (a basin, pool, or pond), with possible cousins across other Indo-European tongues. 'Bed' is far older and homegrown — Old English 'bedd,' the same word for a place to sleep, which English stretched to mean any flat resting-ground a thing settles into: a riverbed, a flowerbed, a seabed. So a lakebed is, quite literally, the bed the lake lies in.
- cracked pattern
- Drying mud splits into polygons to relieve shrinkage stress
- sailing stones
- Death Valley's playa moves rocks on winter ice
- buried archive
- Sediment layers record thousands of years of climate
- salt prize
- Dried lakebeds become flats mined for lithium
- dust threat
- Exposed beds launch toxic storms when lakes vanish
salton sea — california's below-sea-level basin that filled accidentally in 1905 and became a 376 sq mi inland sea
dead sea basin — ancient lakebed between israel and jordan, now earth's lowest point at 1,410 ft below sea level
lake bonneville — prehistoric lakebed in utah that covered 19,000 sq mi during the last ice age, now the great salt lake