sabkh

Updated: August 26, 2026

Back of it extended an iron hinterland, savage with desert spaces of sun-baked, wrinkled earth and sand here and there leprously mottled with white patches of salt and with what the Arabs call sabkh

George Allan England - The Flying Legion

The large swift shot screaming overhead; and the cries of the troops of Merops, with silver-lined wings, resembled those of the sand-grouse. Porphyritic trap lay on both sides of us. Below these blocks the Wady-sides were cut into buttresses of yellow clay, powdered white with Sabkh, or "impure salt."

Sir Richard Francis Burton - The Land of Midian — Volume 2