A Playa is formed when a basin of inland drainage is filled with water to form a shallow fluctuating lake which is saline and is surrounded by sheets of alkaline and saline mud.
When a playa becomes increasingly saline and may dry out, it forms a hard crust of salt called a salina or salar
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