Sabkha
Salt lake above the tide line, where evaporite deposits accumulate
Sabkha
A sabkha (Arabic: سبخة) is a predominantly coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of a semiarid to arid climate. Sabkhas are gradational between land and intertidal zone within restricted coastal plains just above normal high-tide level. Within a sabkha, evaporite-saline mineral sediments typically accumulate below the surface of mudflats or sandflats. Evaporite-saline minerals, tidal-flood, and aeolian deposits characterize many sabkhas found along modern coastlines. The accepted type locality for a sabkha is at the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, in the United Arab Emirates. Evidence of clastic sabkhas are found in the geological record of many areas, including the UK and Ireland. Sabkha is a phonetic transliteration of the Arabic root s b ḵ used when talking about any form of salt flat, including salt marshes and salt swamps. A sabkha is also known as a sabkhah, sebkha, or coastal sabkha. The term sabkha has been used as...
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