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[edit] playa as slang

Can the person who deleted the bit about playa being slang for bitch please explain themselves? Because that was a true fact.... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.40.49.34 (talk • contribs) 16:39, 25 July 2006.

Sorry if it wasn't clear. There were several reasons:

[edit] Intended merge

Note that I intend merging salt pan and playa (by doing a proper history-merge) under the name salt pan. Playa's content is rather better; the content of both pages will naturally be conserved in the new page. There's also some overlap with endorheic, so some information that's better there will also get moved. I've leave this a couple of days - please tell me if you have a problem with this. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 18:26, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Someone has formally proposed this merge. To keep any discussion together, please use talk:salt pan (geology) to discuss the matter. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 15:01, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

This has since been rejected at Talk:Salt pan (geology). See also Talk:Black Rock Desert. Following those discussions I removed salt flat from the main list of equivalent terms, and qualified it according to whether the surface is primarily salt. - Fayenatic (talk) 21:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Playas are fresh water also

According to the EPA, not all playas are salt flats or even salt water. In fact, this source estimates there are as many as 25,000 playas in the southern high plains of West Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas; most of them fresh water. —12.74.168.171 01:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Are Salinas rare?

User:Leo_III added text about the rarity of salinas:

"Another type of playa is a salina. They are very rare, with only 3 on Earth.[citation needed] A salina flat occurs below sea level, behind a rocky, non-porous beach that salt water can easily penetrate through to mix with fresh water from the ground or other sources."

I can't find a reference for this. The "Dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms", compiled and edited by the staff of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, 2nd ed., available on-line via Google, does not mention this definition. I'll ask Leo_III to join the discussion here. Cxbrx (talk) 04:12, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

  • A little bit more on this: Leo_III's original text did not include "[citation needed]", that was added by User:Xanzzibar. Also, the page for Salina says:

A salina is a playa, especially one with saline water or kept moist by rising groundwater.[1]

The referenced webpage is not a very rigorous page, it includes no citations. Cxbrx (talk) 04:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Andrew L. Lessig III (talk) 23:48, 7 January 2008 (UTC)- Actually I have no refrence for this except for being told this by a person who lives on Santa Catalina Island in California and whom works for the Catalina Conservancy, you'll have to take my word on this.

  • Thanks the the clarification! I was just curious about salinas, they seemed pretty interesting. I did find two salinas that are below sea level, List of places on land with elevations below sea level mentions Salina Grande and Salina Chica, which are located in Argentina. I could not find a third salina that was below sea level though. I'll go ahead and remove the text from the main article, leaving this discussion so that if we find a reference, we can reinstate it. As a background task, I'll see if I can scrounge up a reference. 02:08, 8 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cxbrx (talk • contribs)