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the salt flat is Earth pretending to be the blank page it was born from
means A salt flat is a wide, flat expanse of land covered with salt and other minerals, left behind when a salty body of water evaporates.
from A plain compound of two old workhorse words. "Salt" descends from Old English 'sealt', part of a vast Germanic family stretching back to the Proto-Indo-European root *sal-, the same ancient root that seasons Latin 'sal', Greek 'hals', and through Latin even the word 'salary' (Roman soldiers were, the saying goes, partly paid in salt). "Flat" comes from Old Norse 'flatr', meaning level or even — a word the Vikings carried in and English never gave back. Put together, the term simply names what the eye sees: a level place where salt has settled.
- perfect mirror
- Wet ones reflect sky so flawlessly horizons vanish
- speed temple
- Bonneville sets land-speed records on its crust
- lithium vault
- Holds most of the planet's battery-grade lithium
- ancient lake
- Each one is a vanished sea's salty ghost
- hexagon code
- Drying salt cracks into eerie geometric tiles
salar de uyuni — world's largest salt flat at 10,582 km² in southwestern bolivia
bonneville salt flats — 163 km² white expanse in utah used for land speed records since 1914
salton sink — 4,175 km² salt flat below sea level in california's imperial valley