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	La salina di Margherita di Savoia - the saltpan
		The saltpan stretches on a strip of land approximately 20 km long, and goes deep inland for nearly 5 km.
		The evaporation pools of the saltpan have variable forms and surfaces depending on the altimetrical trend of the terrain.
		for excursions and birdwatching to the wetland and the saltpan of Margherita di Savoia...
	www.margheritadisavoia.com /salina/index.html (590 words)

	Dutton Bay Tramway - Salt Pan Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The ground cover was Woodland Scenic which over the years has faded quite dramatically, to the extent that once the new adjoining River Dutton and Wirrandra modules were sceniced, it looked quite out of place.
		Actually, the faded colour around the saltpan is probably reasonable as the salt affects the vegetation and ground cover closer to the pan.
		The saltpans are much shallower now, wich is a much better appearance, and the colour of the scenery matches the adjoining modules.
	members.optusnet.com.au /duttonbay/dbtsalt.html (367 words)

	visioncareproducts.com / April 2004 / The Hot Details on Frame Warmers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With plastic frames, this reshaping (known as adjusting) is done using heat from saltpans or hot air blowers to warm the material.
		Incidentally, the phrase “saltpan” stems from the fact those years ago, this device was actually filled with salt because of its excellent heat-transferring properties.
		Saltpans are fairly inexpensive lab items costing from $100 to $250 and are available from suppliers such as Grobet USA, Hilco, Sadler Optical Tools and Findings and Western Optical Supply.
	www.visioncareproducts.com /33/equ_hot.html (1148 words)

	Long-lost ancient saltpan found near İztuzu Beach - Turkish Daily News Aug 25, 2006
		An ancient saltpan, sought by archaeologists for the last 37 years, was recently uncovered at the small seaside hamlet of Dalyan in Muğla, officials announced this week.
		Archaeologists believe the ancient saltpan is the first of its kind in Turkey and say this is the most outstanding archaeological find of recent times as its pans are still intact despite the thousands of years of disuse.
		The ancient city of Kaunos, which houses the ancient saltpan, is believed to date back to 3000 B.C. Kaunos, which was a wealthy state that minted its own coins, later came under the rule of the Ionians, Alexander the Great and the Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman empires.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=52220 (520 words)

	Sweating over saltpans
		The difference in opinions is perhaps symptomatic about the kind of passions that the saltpan area development issue arouses in official agencies and representatives of Mumbai's developer lobby.
		Spread over 400 acres, the saltpans are jointly owned by the Maharashtra state government and the central government.
		And on the third level is the livelihood of hundreds of saltpan workers and owners.
	www.chalomumbai.com /hot_property/features/2005/august/116754.htm (1191 words)

	Tswaing
		Brandt, D. Reimold, W.U. 1993 A structural and petrographic investigation of the Pretoria Saltpan impact structure (abstract).
		Brandt, D. Reimold, W.U. 1995 The geology of the Pretoria Saltpan impact structure and the surrounding area.
		Brandt, D. Reimold, W.U. 1995 The petrology of the igneous rocks occurring in the Pretoria Saltpan impact crater and surrounding area.
	www.unb.ca /passc/ImpactDatabase/images/tswaing.html (541 words)

	Colchani Virtual Tour- Uyuni - Potosi - Bolivia - AmericaSol.Net
		The few hundreds of indigenous population is poor and completely dedicated to extract salt from the Saltpan, in old fashioned way, with shovels and manual job.
		Colchani is not a tourist destination, but, as the Uyuni Saltpan gets more and more known like one of the natural wonder in Earth, indians get more used with this fact and with the vans crossing the place with mundial tourists.
		The Entrance of the Uyuni Saltpan is in Colchani.
	www.americasol.net /bolivia/sal_en_colchani/index_english.html (191 words)

	Cybernoon.com
		The proposal mooted by the Union Commerce and Industry Minister to open up saltpan land for resettlement, is becoming a cause for concern for the green brigade and the legal eagles.
		And saltpan workers and owners seem to be disillusioned with the Centre and they seem almost sure that the government is going all out to snatch their morsel of food from them.
		Venkatesh says that the saltpan land will, in all probability, be used to construct highrises and there will be development of infrastructure too.
	www.cybernoon.com /DisplayArticle.asp?section=fromthepress&subsection=inbombay&xfile=May2006_inbombay_standard9804 (519 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		It is difficult to say to what extent this argument of the state pacified the environment ministry but last year itself, the state succeeded in securing a no-objection certificate for the development of saltpan areas in Mumbai.
		Environmentalists pooh pooh the government’s stand that the saltpan lands are not under CRZ.
		Since it cannot go back to the sea, it will flow to other low-lying areas leading to clogging and floods.” Even the former environment minister had said that saltpan lands were a part of CRZ and should not be deregularised.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main4.asp?filename=Ne072404cong_govt.asp (397 words)

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		The soil from the saltpan regions of Cuddalore and Parangipettai (Porto-novo) were screened for the isolation of actinomycetes.
		In the present investigation soil samples from various saltpans of Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India were examined for the presence of Streptomyces and the 17 isolates thus obtained were tested for the production of antibacterial metabolite.
		The soil samples (100-500g) were collected during field trip in sterile petridishes and polythene bags to avoid external contamination, from the saltpan regions of Cuddalore (Lat 11° 45' N and Long 79° 47' E) and Parangipettai, (Lat 11° 32' and Long 79° 45' E) Tamil Nadu, India.
	www.ispub.com /ostia/index.php?xmlPrinter=true&xmlFilePath=journals/ijmb/vol1n2/actino.xml (1064 words)

	Bolivia - General Information
		Salar De Uyuni: This 12,000 sq km (4680 sq mi) saltpan at an altitude of 3650m (11,970ft) was once part of a prehistoric salt lake which covered most of southwestern Bolivia.
		Isla de Pescadores, in the middle of the saltpan, has spectacular stands of cactus and is home to a stranded colony of vizcachas (long-tailed rodents related to the chinchilla).
		Northwest of Salar de Uyini is the Salar de Coipasa, on whose northern shore is a unique Chipaya Indian village.
	www.southernhorizons.com /BL_gen_see3.htm (340 words)

	Sečoveljske soline - saltpan of Sečovlje (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Saltpans of Sečovlje used to be the largest saltpans in this area.
		Saltpans are now abandoned and are a nature preserve for waterfowl.
		Tourist development of this area was begun from the saltpans...in 19th century, the wholesomeness of the mud from saltpans was discovered and tourism started...
	www.burger.si /Obala/ObalaENG.html (119 words)

	Saltpan Creek Concrete Crushing Plant - 10/03/1993 - PRIV
		The council's proposal is a slap in the face for the local community.
		While the former tip at Saltpan Creek was in operation local residents had to put up with much inconvenience.
		They were promised that once the tip had run its course and closed they would be compensated by the land being turned over to green space for recreation purposes.
	parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA19930310021 (571 words)

	Saltpan land cases may be clubbed
		The oldest saltpan case still pending was filed in 1978.
		In 1921, the saltpan lands were leased out to private individuals for salt-making for measly amounts for 99 years.
		According to Desai, the government noted that these people had stopped manufacturing salt and were instead developing the land, which prompted it to send show-cause notices or cancel the land titles.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=184776 (400 words)

	ESRI -EdUC Professional Papers--Abstracts
		The coast of the Gulf of Cambay of Gujarat is enclosed by a number of estuaries, mud flats, salt marshes, islands, cliffs and mangrove forests.
		A study was carried out using IRS 1C/1D LISS III imageries to delineate changes in saltpan from 1995 to 2003.
		There was remarkable increment in saltpans, 53.91 Km2 from the year 1995 to 2000, 22.56 Km2 in 2000-2001 and 35.73 Km2 in 2001-2003.
	gis.esri.com /library/userconf/educ05/abstracts/a2413.html (169 words)

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		32, 7 foraging on sands, 25 roosting on sands in a saltpan.
		The following bird species were observed in the saltpans near the entrance of the saltworks of Castro Marim.
		3, foraging in the water of the saltpan.
	www.ornithos.de /Ornithos/Trip_Reports/Portugal-Algarve2004/Portugal2004-Excursions.htm (2037 words)

	3-D Geology of Death Valley National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Badwater (elevation -282 feet) is located along Highway 178 about 12.5 miles south of the intersection of Highway 190 at Furnace Creek.
		Perennial saltwater springs occur here at edge of the saltpan along the eastern side of the Black Mountains.
		The lowest point in the western hemisphere (-282 feet) is located about 5 miles northwest of Badwater near the middle of the saltpan.
	3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /deathvalley/html/badwater.htm (96 words)

	P-38 Crash Landing in the saltpan at Pimlico in Townsville in about September 1942
		I remember when I was about 12 -15 years old, one of our neighbours, the Neilsens, telling me about a P-38 Lightning having crash landed on the saltpan behind our house in Haig Street, Pimlico.
		The saltpan, again full of water after heavy rain in Dec 1965.
		I rang Ralph Watts on 7 June 2001 to confirm whether he was the pilot who made a forced landing of his P-38 Lightning on the salt pan at Pimlico after taking off from the Stock Route airfield.
	home.st.net.au /~dunn/p38crash.htm (1955 words)

	African Extravaganza: tours and safaris
		The dried out saltpan is the centre of the Park and the waterholes, both natural and man-made, attract thousands of animals.
		The scenery is unique in the world and together with herds of antelope, zebra and also big game such as elephant, rhino and lion give this beautiful game park its essential character.
		We drive along the vast saltpan, visit the historic Fort Namutoni and depart shortly before sunset to the upmarket Mokuti Lodge, located just outside the eastern gate of the Park.
	www.namibweb.com /moresafaris1.htm (2771 words)

	saltpan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Patdi taluka is also known for its salt-manufacturing units in Guajrat, the region’s location is neighbouring the Kutch district.
		The local people work in saltpan for eking out the livelihood by producing the raw and un processed salt cubes from seawater and also from under ground water, they mostly work as daily rated labourer and are massively exploited.
		The earthquake has badly damaged the local salt manufacturing units, their building got damaged, their machinery got damaged hence rendered these poor workers un –employed.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~aidmn/docs/saltpan.htm (426 words)

	Reduction of Social Risk Project 6th Eurasian Summit planned for October 2-4 New radar system strengthens security of ...
		IZMIR - Izmir Birds Paradise is under threat of the privatization of Camlaralti Saltpan, which surrounds 70 percent of Birds Paradise.
		Siki, underlining that the sale of the saltpan is on the agenda, warned the companies by saying: "The goal of domestic and foreign companies, which plan to buy Camlaralti Saltpan, should not be only to increase salt production.
		Siki, reminding that Camlaralti Saltpan and its production area covered 70 percent of Izmir Birds Paradise, expressed the vital importance of Camlaralti Saltpan for the birds in the district.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=33245 (1490 words)

	Bolivia Photo Gallery, Page 5 -
		The Uyuni Saltpan is one of the most exotic and impressive places we could visit on our planet.
		The floor is really salt and if you try some, you will taste regular salt petrified.
		The Uyuni Saltpan is an expression of Nature - beautiful, very special, calm, white and unbelievable.
	bolivia.adoption.com /foreign/bolivia-photo-gallery,5.html (272 words)

	Bolivia Other Metals and Minerals - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		The government's mineral policy also gave a high priority to exploiting the lithium and potassium deposits located in the brines of the southern Altiplano's Uyuni saltpan, estimated to be the largest of their kind in the world.
		By 1985 Bolivia's National Congress had made lithium extraction a national priority and created the Industrial Complex of the of Uyuni Saltpan (Complejo Industrial de los Recursos Evaporíticos del Salar de Uyuni) to explore, exploit, and market lithium.
		Because the extraction of lithium is an expensive, technically complex process, the government sought bids for some foreign investment in lithium in the late 1980s.
	www.photius.com /countries/bolivia/economy/bolivia_economy_other_metals_and_min~6861.html (559 words)

	WATER-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF USGS IN NEVADA -- Evaporation Rates at Death Valley
		Approach: Field measurements at selected sites in the Death Valley saltpan area which extends from about Grapevine Springs to just south of Badwater, will be used to develop representative rates of ET.
		An additional site was established in Gold Valley to estimate ET from desert scrub brush above the valley floor.
		These rates, together with estimated areas for which each rate applies, can be used to develop an estimate of ground-water evaporation from the Death Valley saltpan area.
	nevada.usgs.gov /activities/nv203.htm (560 words)

	OKCupid! saltpan / 34 / f / straight / Vancouver, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	www.okcupid.com /profile?u=saltpan (400 words)

	Private Luxury Travel in Namibia - ABSOLUTE TRAVEL - Namibia Deluxe Tours
		Days can be spent exploring the Namib Naukluft -- the world's oldest desert, and the site of the massive sand dunes at Sossusvlei.
		To the north, Etosha National Park is one of Africa's finest, with many rare species flourishing around the vast saltpan and scattered watering holes of the park.
		Damaraland is well known for its stunning landscape -- a sprawling land of mountainous plateau, deep red rock, and hidden fertile valleys.
	www.absoluteasia.com /LuxuryNamibiaTours/index.html (165 words)

	The Etosha National Park Shuttle Safari - Namibia
		The Etosha National Park is a must for every visitor to Namibia.
		The dried out saltpan is the centre of the Etosha Park and the waterholes, both natural and man-made, attract thousands of animals.
		The scenery is unique and together with herds of antelope, zebra and big game such as elephant, rhino and lion give this beautiful game park its essential character.
	www.namibian.org /travel/safaris/accomsaf/desert_coast.html (392 words)

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		, vijay@ee.duke.edu Subject: Earthquake Livelihood project, Shoe making and Saltpan Dear Friends Greetings from Disha Please find herewith two attachments concerning to distributions of salt crushing machines and raw material to earthquake affected people.
		1- Saltmachine is report for project with saltpan worker (Agariya) 2-Aid India is report for shoe making The distribution was made on 15th August, Independence Day.
		Hope the project really brings economic independence in the live of beneficiaries.
	www.duke.edu /web/aid/downloads/gujarat/upd08-16-02.doc (1335 words)

	saltpan - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
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