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	Bonneville Salt Flats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville of glacial times, the Salt Flats are now public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
		The Salt Flats are perhaps most famous for their use as the Bonneville Speedway for high-speed race cars which have achieved speeds in excess of 600 miles per hour (1000 kilometers per hour).
		In 2006 the Stardust (spacecraft) landed safely on the salt flats; however, in 2004 the Genesis (spacecraft) crashed into it, damaging its payload after a failed parachute deployment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats (244 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The salt flats are actually the bed of that once massive lake which rivaled in size present Lake Michigan.
		The flats are composed mainly of potash salts ranging in thickness from less than one inch to six feet.
		It is from Benjamin Bonneville that the salt flats and prehistoric lake derive their name, although it is unlikely that Bonneville himself ever saw the flats.
	historytogo.utah.gov /utah_chapters/the_land/bonnevillesaltflats.html (528 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The smooth salt surface of the Flats is ideal for auto racing, and several world land speed records have been set there.
		Great Salt Lake, Lake Sevier, and Utah Lake are remnants of Lake Bonneville, which was named for U.S. explorer Benjamin de Bonneville.
		Salt flat dreams: during speed week, grass-roots racers hit Utah's Bonneville salt flats, where land speed records--and more than a few hearts--are made to be broken.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/bonnevils1f1.asp (326 words)

	The Bonneville Salt Flats \| Utah.com
		The salt flats' potential for racing was first recognized in 1896 by W.D. Rishel who was scouting a bicycle race course from New York to San Francisco.
		Although he never visited the salt flats, the area is named in honor of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, whose expeditions in the 1830's proved the area was part of an ancient basin.
		The Bonneville Salt Flats is administered by the Bureau of Land Management for public use and enjoyment.
	www.utah.com /playgrounds/bonneville_salt.htm (884 words)

	Bonneville Speedway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bonneville Speedway is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports.
		The salt flats were first used for motor sports in 1912, but didn't become truly popular until the 1930s when the Ab Jenkins and Sir Malcolm Campbell competed against each other to set the land speed record.
		A similar event in September each year is the World of Speed, organised by the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association (USFRA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonneville_Speedway (380 words)

	EBSCOhost
		With the Salt Flats as the stage, filmmakers have employed various techniques to give viewers a feeling that they are experiencing a variety of different locations, somewhere else on earth, or on another world.
		Essentially a gigantic salt bed stretching across 100 square miles of land, the Bonneville Salt Flats are an awesome testament of the previous waterworld that dominated this region.
		The Salt Flats are not the only place used to represent different locations or create different "senses of place," but their versatility leads to the unique characteristics and versatility that draw filmmakers.
	personal.ecu.edu /aldermand/geog6315/saltflats.htm (5952 words)

	The Last Amateur Sport:Automobile Racing on the Bonneville Salt Flats \|\| Americana: The Journal Of American Popular ...
		When the salt flats portion of a cross country highway was completed in 1927, Jenkins drove a car and beat the celebrity train from Salt Lake City to Wendover, a distance of 125 miles (Jenkins and Ashton 29, 34-35).
		While the Southern California racers complained that the salt flats and their race track were disappearing, the government said it was difficult to respond to these complaints from an out-of-state organization that only used the salt flats for a week a year.
		Racing on the salt flats is a work-play experience that provides adventure as the western frontier did for European American men in the 1800s and sports did in the early twentieth century.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/fall_2003/embry.htm (7588 words)

	Bureau Scientists Visit Bonneville Salt Flats
		The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah was the staging ground for a NASA-sponsored LIDAR survey using GLAS, the Geosciences Laser Altimetry System.
		Bonneville Salt Flats is a primary candidate for GLAS calibration.
		Between October 4 and 6, 2001, scientists from the UT-Center for Space Research and the Scripps Institution for Oceanography mapped the salt flats with a vehicle-mounted GPS system concurrently with the BEG LIDAR survey.
	www.beg.utexas.edu /news-events/news-archive/bonneville_10-01.htm (200 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats: Story and Photos
		Bonneville Salt Flats - the home of land speed racing that has been home to hot rodders for over fifty years.
		Bonneville Salt Flats has filled the history books globally with the likes of Craig Breedlove, The Summers Brothers and Mickey Thompson's land speed milestones.
		Bonneville has also been a racing environment for speed shops and manufacturing companies to excel and expand in their pioneering years.
	www.racingroadtrip.com /trips/salt_flats-03 (1128 words)

	Bonneville Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bonneville Land Speed Racing is a unique sport that consists of very determined people who drive hot rods, roadsters, belly tankers, lakesters, motorcycles, streamliners, and even diesel trucks to "shoot the salt" in a simple quest to have their name added to the list of many record holders.
		The salt flats are located approximately 88 miles west of Salt Lake City, UT on I 80.
		The colors, excitement, people and smells are some of the reasons we race addicts return to the salt, year after year.
	www.scta-bni.org /Bonneville/Bonn_intro.html (280 words)

	Art of Speed: Everything's Faster in Utah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bonneville is the site of a former lake: During the last Ice Age, Lake Bonneville was about the size of Lake Michigan.
		Bonneville is still home, however, to the motorcycle speed record: In 1990, Dave Campos, riding in a 23-foot long "streamliner," hit 322 mph.
		And Bonneville still has a place in the record books when it comes to the bicycle speed record: In 1995, Fred Rompelberg managed to hit a top speed of 167 mph perched atop a flimsy bike.
	www.gawker.com /artofspeed/pages/015920.php (480 words)

	Wendover - History of The Bonneville Salt Flats
		The Bonneville Salt Flats occupy over 30,000 acres in the western deserts of Utah.
		Lake Bonneville was named after Benjamin de Bonneville whose explorations in the 1830's proved that the area was part of an ancient basin.
		Rishel first came across the salt flats in 1896 while scouting a route for a cross country bicycle race.
	www.members.tripod.com /eveleth/wendover/wendsalt.htm (591 words)

	Bonneville Speed Week
		If they've been on the salt flats for more than two days, avoid standing downwind from them, since the wind often blows chunks of crispy, toasted skin off their faces and lips, which eventually settles into a fine crust on the race track.
		There are two courses at Bonneville: the short course and the long course, with the long course being used by the cars and bikes that run over about 200 or so.
		Events at the Bonneville Salt Flats are organized by several sanctioning bodies, each hosting several events per year.
	www.roadsters.com /bonneville (2395 words)

	CNN - Race is on to save Bonneville Salt Flats - Aug. 25, 1996
		The salt flats -- considered the eighth wonder of the world by many -- are now an area of "critical environmental concern," according to the Bureau of Land Management.
		The flats' problems stem from a drastic thinning of the surface, which used to be some 6 feet thick.
		Drivers fear that if the flats' course continues to shorten and the surface continues to deplete, no more records will be set at the historic site.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /EARTH/9608/25/salt.flats (441 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The term is generally limited to flats in the western United States, the most famous being the Bonneville Salt Flats (q.v.) west of Salt Lake City, where automobile speed records are set.
		On Sept. 16, 1947, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, U.S., he set world speed records (not broken until 1964) for Class A (unlimited engine size) automobiles: 394.196 mph for one mile and 393.825 mph for one kilometre.
		It is a land of vast deserts, salt flats, and block mountains.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9080632 (710 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Bonneville Salt Flats — Speed week
		BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS — Drivers and crew refer to it as "salt fever." It's the reason, they say with a smile, they keep coming back to the salt year after year after year.
		He was hoping to hit speeds around 250 mph in the Haas car, then kick in both engines and "with the two engines the car has the potential of 450 mph." Which would, if he's successful, set a new high-speed record for a wheel-driven car with blown engines.
		Salt fever has struck three generations of the Bryant family.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595085037,00.html (1207 words)

	L.L.Bean: Park Search - Bonneville Salt Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Bonneville Salt Flats is a unique natural feature, stretching over 30,000 acres, and a fragile resource.
		Although he never visited the salt flats, the area is named in honor of Captain B. Bonneville, whose expeditions in the 1830s proved the area was a part of the ancient basin.
		Traces of the shorelines, representing different levels of the receding lake, are etched into the mountains surrounding the salt flats.
	www.llbean.com /parksearch/parks/html/117llb.htm (454 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats Raceway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Numerous land speed records have been achieved at Bonneville, on the vast and flat natural pavement of salt: the 300, 400, 500, and 600 mile per hour land speed barrier were all broken here over the years.
		The hard-packed solid salt area which is used for the races has shrunk from 15 miles in length in 1950, to 10 miles today, and the quality of the surface has decreased.
		A project to restore the hardpacked salt uas been initated by the chemical company that mines the flats, and the Bureau of Land Management, which owns the land.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/UT3136 (255 words)

	No. 737: Bonneville Salt Flats
		The Salt Flats are alternating layers of salt and mud, hard like concrete.
		In 1935 Malcolm Campbell made the Salt Flats into the world's premier high-speed race course by exceeding 300 mph.
		Their theme is, "travel across this vast Salt Desert and marvel at God's work." In the end, that's what great-grandpa did.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi737.htm (473 words)

	Sunset: Western Wanderings - attraction of racing vehicles at Bonneville Salt Flats - Brief Article
		BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, UTAH -- On Sunday morning of Speed Week, the Racers for Christ hold a nondenominational prayer service.
		Salt crystals encrust your shoes and coat your pants cuffs, and you begin to think your own cells are turning to salt.
		And then, suddenly, Bonneville stops you dead with some spectacle of stupefying beauty: a glassy pond mirroring the mountains, a dawn that lights the white world a limpid pink.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_6_204/ai_62655856 (621 words)

	GM Performance Division Ready for Record-Setting Week at Bonneville Salt Flats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Centuries later, GM Performance Division is earning its salt - and its reputation for engineering leadership - on the vast expanse of the Bonneville Salt Flats.
		GM is going back to the salt in 2005 with a quartet of cars to prove again the Ecotec's mettle in a demanding and distinctly American environment.
		The Bonneville Salt Flats has been the home of speed since the first organized trials were conducted there in 1914.
	www.autoemirates.com /International/2005/0817-GM-Bonneville.asp (699 words)

	The Open Road: Racing the Bonneville Salt Flats
		Bob and the others are bound by a love for the scent of high octane fuel, by the blur of mileposts whizzing by, and by a reverence for this place.
		She was first drawn to the flats in 1951 and Bonneville has become her second home.
		The Salt Flats is the dried-out bed of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric inland sea.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/2000/20001124/open-road2.shtml (1696 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats
		Bonneville Salt Flats, desert area in Tooele co., NW Utah, c.14 mi (22.5 km) long and 7 mi (11.2 km) wide.
		The Flats are part of Great Salt Lake Desert, NW Utah, the former bed of
		Great Salt Lake - Great Salt Lake, shallow body of saltwater, NW Utah, between the Wasatch Range on the east and the...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/us/A0808268.html (233 words)

	July 15 - Bonneville Salt Flats
		Bonneville Speedway is at the end of a paved road that goes about 5 miles out onto the salt flats, and just dead-ends - no buildings or other permanent structures other than a sign, and a single line of orange cones heading northeast out into the salt flats.
		The cones extend for about 10 in a straight line miles out into the Bonneville Salt Flats, inviting me to determine the top speed of my vehicle.
		There are various "islands" that rise up out of the salt flats, including the Silver Island Mountains that parallel the speedway to the northwest, and the tiny Floating Island.
	www.oz.net /~geoffsi/sw2001-web/index-715.htm (465 words)

	In The Fast Lane: Speed Week At the Bonneville Salt Flats - ForbesAutos.com
		For a week every August, the Bonneville Salt Flats, 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, Utah, is the site of a summer ritual in which Yankee ingenuity meets the human fascination with fast cars.
		Although Bonneville is the world's largest racecourse and the place where most of the fastest land-speed records have been set, Speed Week is not to be confused with the Indy 500 or the Monaco Grand Prix, where drivers compete against one another.
		The 30,000 acres of salt flats are the residue of ancient Lake Bonneville, which began drying up about 15,000 years ago.
	www.forbesautos.com /news/headlines/2005/august/ap080805-smithsonian.html (686 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats Motorsports Multimedia Exhibit, Univ. Utah
		However, the greatest of these is the long tradition of competing for land speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
		In 1931 Ab Jenkins of Salt lake City broke all former world speed records." In the years that followed, especially the 1950s and 1960s, the salt flats were a motorsports mecca.
		The sounds bites are taken from the Salt Lake City's KSL radio news coverage of Captain Eyston's land speed record attempts on the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1938.
	www.lib.utah.edu /spc/photo/bonn/bonn.htm (484 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats, Salt Flats, Northern Utah - Landscape Stock Photograph - Frank Jensen Photography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Northern Utah’s Salt Flats are a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville, which filled the valleys of present day Utah, southern Nevada, and southeastern Idaho during the ice age.
		Since the salt saturated surface expands and shrinks unevenly, it leaves a pattern of pressure ridges as seen in this photograph taken in 1970.
		The salts otherwise smooth surface lends itself to auto racing and has been the site of a number of land speed records.
	www.fjphoto.com /stock/stockMain.php?pic=11 (285 words)

	Bonneville Salt Flats - World Record - Pierson Brothers Coupe - Tom Bryant
		Friday we went to the salt to find ourselves plagued by wind, which was not all bad, because the wind can help to dry the racing surface, if it bows the right direction, if not it can bring more water across the race course.
		The salt was very good this year, do to the pumping of brine that began this year, I suppose.
		Reilley Chemical, who mines potash from the salt flats has begun a pumping process to return millions of tons of salt that they have removed over the years.
	www.dochemp.com /2pbtom.html (1866 words)

	Utah Bonneville Salt Flats
		On the way to Salt Lake City, Utah, the Wash Guys stopped by to visit the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway.
		Six of these records were for obtaining speeds in excess of 600 mph - "On The Ground." Wash Guys Team salutes these men who risk it all for a place amongst the few who can say, they are the fastest on the planet.
		But not that far if you are in a jet propelled rocket car traveling in excess of 600 mph.
	www.carwashguys.com /tour_saltflats.shtml (128 words)

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