In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes.
The governing I Ching hexagram is 47, K'un, , oppression or exhaustion, the dried-up lake, with the usual reading of superior men oppressed by the inferior.
On 30 November 1974 Lucy was discovered in a dried-up lake near Hadar in Ethiopia's northeast.
The air vehicle was recovered safely at the intended place at a dried-up lake, after a total flight duration of 40 min.
Le Marr went on, across a dried-up lake, where the bodies of tiny fish, desiccated because of the high salt contents, now made a silver carpet of scales.
He realized that they had followed him across the island from their former haunt among the dried-up lakes.
As a result, dust plumes frequently blow through the Bodele Depression, the site of a massive dried-up ancient lake in Chad.
The moon was white upon a wide expanse, not unlike a dried-up lake of salt.
We were 10 days out now and limbered our horses up by racing them across the dried-up lake at Benambra.
Looking down below them from the top, they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points.