salt pan

noun salt pans

1. Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.
2. Synonym of saltern: a man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals. In order to provide a market for the coal, four salt pans were constructed a third of a mile south-east of the harbour. […] Thereafter the route of the original line was followed to the harbour, beyond which an extension, a third of a mile long, led to the salt pans and a newly constructed inn, the