Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CHOTT

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Definitions of CHOTT

1. (geology) A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.

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Examples of Using CHOTT in a Sentence

• Wind or rare rainfall shape the desert features: sand dunes, dune fields, sand seas, stone plateaus, gravel plains (reg), dry valleys (wadi), dry lakes (oued), and salt flats (shatt or chott).
• Rivers and lakes: Chott Melrhir, Mazafran, Oued El Harrach, Chiffa, Isser, Sebaou, Daas, Soummam, El Malah, El Hammam, Mekkera, Tafna, Chott Chergui, Seybouse River, Rhumel, Medjerda, Cheliff, Zahrez, Chott el Hodna, Moulouya.
• The region is characterised by bare pink hills with oases and several chotts (salt pans) such as Chott el Djerid in Tunisia.
• Sand roses are found in large numbers in surroundings of the salt lake of Chott el Djerid in South-West Tunisia, as well as the neighboring regions in Algeria and Ghadames, Libya.
• There is a lagoon between Hergla and its neighbour town Chott Meryem in the south-east called Halk el menzel (sickle lake).
• Hundley (vocal effects by Bill Chott in season 1 and Lex Lang in season 2) is an orange male dachshund.
• North and west of this feature is the Chott el Djerid; west of the Matmata Hills, lies dry Jebel Dahar country and then the impassable sand of the Grand Erg Oriental.
• Gafsa is a noted irrigated fruit-growing oasis and a major shipping center for phosphates obtained from the salt flats of Chott el Djerid (Arabic: شط الجريد Šoṭṭ el-Jarīd).
• Kebili contains a significant part of Tunisia's largest salt pan, which is known as Chott el-Jerid, as well as the western end of Chott el Fejej.
• The other roads of the province are marked as minor, one passing via a long causeway through the Chott el Djerid leading directly to Kebili, Matmata and Medenine.
• Chott el Djerid is the namesake of the Jerid Lacuna, an endorheic hydrocarbon lake on the Saturnian moon Titan.
• One last specimen is mentioned as having been collected in the 1920s near Geryville, south of the Chott Ech Chergui.
• Luciobarbus antinorii, commonly known as the Tunisian barb or Chott el Djerid barbel, was a doubtfully distinct ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae.
• The town is located on the northern shore of the salt lake Chott el Djerid, 12 km east of Tozeur and 92 km west of Gafsa.
• Roudaire and de Lesseps proposed that a channel be cut from the Gulf of Gabès in the Mediterranean to the Chott el Fejej which would allow the sea to drain into these basins.
• The bottom of Chott el Fejej lies below sea level and runs in a narrow path from the main body of Chott el Djerid to the Tunisian desert oasis of El Hamma, near the Gulf of Gabès on the Mediterranean Sea.
• The largest of such lakes is the Chott Ech Chergui with a length of about 160 km located in the central section of the plains.
• Until 1867 he explored the surroundings of Mascara, Saïda, Frenda, El Bayadh (Géryville), and parts of the Hautes Plaines, including the Chott Ech Chergui and the sabkha in the Naâma Province.
• Despite the Roman foot definitions varying by time and geography, the surviving centuriation divisions are consistent, with normal size centuria side measurements from 703 meters in Chott el Djerid to 711 meters in Emilia.

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