Salt pans can refer to:

  • Salt pan (geology), a flat expanse of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually found in deserts
  • Sabkha, a phonetic translation of the Arabic word for a salt pan (geology)
  • Salt pannes and pools – water retaining depressions located within salt and brackish marshes
  • Salt evaporation pond, a method of producing salt by evaporating brine
  • Open-pan salt making, a method of salt production wherein salt is extracted from the brine using vacuum pans

See also

  • Dry lake
  • Hypersalinity
  • Salt lake
  • Salt pannes and pools