lake-bed

Federal authorities claim the chosen site, on a former lake-bed, has aeronautical, economic and construction advantages over alternatives, but the decision has angered city officials, concerned about the greater pressure on already limited water supplies, and environmentalists.

Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - December 2001 2006

Dr Thomas van Hoof and his colleagues studied pollen grains and leaf remains collected from lake-bed sediments in the southeast Netherlands.

Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006

Federal authorities claim the chosen site, on a former lake-bed, has aeronautical, economic and construction advantages over alternatives, but the decision has angered city officials, concerned about the greater pressure on already limited water supplies, and environmentalists.

Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - December 2001 2006

"The only things left were chunks of ice on the dry lake-bed and an enormous fissure," he told Reuters.

Large Lake in Chile Disappears | Impact Lab 2007

While the only raw materials available locally to the ancient inhabitants of Çatalhöyük were clay, lake-bed marl, grasses, and animal hide, at some distance, the Tarus Mountains to the south and several volcanoes in other directions, could have been the sources ofmaterials suitable for grinding and polishing obsidian.

Grinding it Out 2001

Somewhere, a drummer pounded tightly stretched skins; and Madness—a faceless entity with hot red eyes—danced naked in a dry lake-bed, demanding human sacrifice.

Killing Time Della Van Hise 1990

It bobbed there, held by the string, which led right down to the knife and torch on the lake-bed below.

Five On A Hike Together Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1951

But the illusion is lessened by the surroundings, for we are approaching a dry sink -- an old lake-bed that was filled with brackish water once when a cloud-burst that occurred in Calico Mountains had its busy day.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

Other expressed concerns have been about the chemical composition of the lake-bed soil and the potentially toxic dust that would spread in the area with the wind.

Facts and fiction about the lake 1919

The soil doesn't have the same chemical composition as the Aral Sea, which became a dry lake-bed with no vegetation replacing water.

Facts and fiction about the lake 1919