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	Great Salt Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salt Lake City and its suburbs are located to the southeast and east of the lake, between the lake and the Wasatch Mountains, but land around the north and west shores is almost uninhabited.
		The Bonneville Salt Flats lie to the west, and the Oquirrh Mountains rise to the south.
		The salinity of Great Salt Lake is highly variable, and depends on the lake's level; it ranges from 5 to 27% (or 50-270 ppt).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Salt_Lake (2101 words)

	Great Salt Lake \| Utah.com
		It is the largest lake between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean, and is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.
		Early explorers thought the lake was an inland extension of the Pacific Ocean, or that a river connected the lake to the ocean.
		Wildlife is abundant on Antelope Island and in the lake's shoreline marshes.
	www.utah.com /stateparks/great_salt_lake.htm (868 words)

	Great Salt Lake. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Great Salt L. is a remnant of prehistoric L. Bonneville, which covered an extensive area of the Great Basin and was once c.1,000 ft/305 m deep.
		Differing from all other sides of the lake, the E shore area, the base of Wasatch Mts., is wellwatered, agricultural, and well populated.
		Salt Lake City on SE shore, at mouth of Jordan R.; city of Ogden and other small cities near E shore.
	www.bartleby.com /69/36/G04736.html (425 words)

	Great Salt Lake Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Salt Lake Desert is a large playa in northern Utah, located west of the Great Salt Lake.
		It is an arid region extending west from the Great Salt Lake to the Nevada border.
		The salt comes mainly from evaporite deposits left by the extinct Lake Bonneville, of which only the Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake remain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Salt_Lake_Desert (378 words)

	The Great Salt Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The salinity was 10 percent with the lake elevation at 4211.7 feet and a total volume of 29.5 million-acre feet; it reached a high in 1963 of 27.5 percent salt by weight when the lake elevation was at 4191.6 feet and a total volume of 8.7 million-acre feet.
		In the 1980s there was great concern over the level of the lake and its impact on the airport, wastewater treatment plant, I—80, rail lines along the shoreline and the western part of Salt Lake City.
		As part of the lake control projects, a dam was built across the outfall canal and a pump plant built to lift the water to the downstream side of the dam.
	www.ci.slc.ut.us /Utilities/NewsEvents/news1999/news341999.htm (1797 words)

	Great Salt Lake, Utah
		The USGS is studying the ecology of brine shrimp in the lake in cooperation with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (requires Frames compatible browser) and researchers from the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Utah State University.
		The salts of the lake are primarily sodium chloride (common salt), although small amounts of other elements and salts are also present, including magnesium, potassium, sulfate, and carbonate.
		Great Salt Lake supports between 2 and 5 million shorebirds, as many as 1.7 million eared grebes, and hundreds of thousands of waterfowl during spring and fall migration.
	ut.water.usgs.gov /greatsaltlake (862 words)

	Great Salt Lake Basin Hydrologic Observatory - Great Salt Lake
		The present lake is a shallow body of water with a maximum depth of approximately 35 feet, with its size and depth varying greatly as a result of climate variations.
		The Great Salt Lake and select lands around the lake are sovereign lands of the State of Utah, and there has been considerable debate as to whether the State's property line is the low water mark or the high water mark.
		The lake is the largest inland salt water lake in North America, the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi river, and the fourth largest terminal lake in the world.
	greatsaltlake.utah.edu /description/greatsaltlake (685 words)

	Great Salt Lake Quotations
		Lake of paradoxes, in a country where water is life itself and land has little value without it, Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature -- water that is itself more desert than a desert.
		Maelstroms have ravaged its surface, great vents have opened in its bottom to drain its water horribly into the bowels of the earth, and of course it was connected to the Pacific Ocean by subterranean passage.
		The clear, sky-blue surface of the lake, the warm sunny air, the nearby high mountains, with the beautiful country at their foot, through which we on a fine road were passing, made on my spirits an extraordinarily charming impression.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Shores/9144/Quotes/quotes.html (4371 words)

	WHSRN - Great Salt Lake
		Plans for a major highway connecting Salt Lake and Davis Counties, that would bisect many GSL wetlands is also a threat, as is the possibility of using the lake as a dumping site for contaminated soil (arsenic and lead) from a super fund site.
		This is due to poor understanding of the Lake's ecosystem and the effects of alterations, especially to the Lake's saline component and connected organisms such as brine shrimp, brine flies and to a large degree, many shorebirds.
		In the mid-1980's, all of Bear river Migratory Bird Refuge was inundated by the Great Salt Lake and the refuge was Closed.
	www.manomet.org /WHSRN/viewsite.php?id=36 (1045 words)

	Utah History Encyclopedia
		The Great Salt Lake is both the largest body of water between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean and the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere.
		The Great Salt Lake is the major remnant of Lake Bonneville, a large freshwater lake of the Pleistocene era (75,000-7,250 B.C.) that occupied much of western Utah.
		The lake occupies one of the basins of the Great Basin, and is located at the western margin of the Wasatch Mountains of the Rocky Mountain Range.
	www.media.utah.edu /UHE/g/GREATSALTLAKE.html (741 words)

	cloudtravel
		The present lake is what is left of Lake Bonneville that covered 20,000 square acres of Utah up to 14,000 years ago.
		The shape and size of the lake is ever changing, and is roughly 75 miles long and 35 miles across.
		The Great Salt Lake is a huge and wonderful landlocked span of water to see, but perhaps not so inviting a recreational destination as the Great Salt Lake Yacht Club makes out.
	radio.weblogs.com /0117154/2003/04/15.html (210 words)

	The Great Salt Lake
		There was some thought that the lake might be an arm of the Pacific Ocean until James Clyman and three others circumnavigated the lake in 1826 using a "bull boat" which was most likely a type of skin canoe.
		Lake levels hit their historic low in 1963, when the surface stood at 4,191 feet in elevation and covered 950 square miles.
		This imbalance is visible in the causeway photograph where the water north of the causeway is noticeably red due to the bacteria concentration in the super saturated water.
	www.gslr.org /the_great_salt_lake.htm (617 words)

	Great Salt Lake
		In fact, the lake ecosystem is one of the most important wildlife habitats in the Western Hemisphere, and has been for at least 8,000 years.
		Bird numbers are so great, however, that many rest, feed and nest on land outside the refuges, land which is increasingly threatened by human encroachment, development and pollution.
		The lake is also home to the largest breeding population of California gulls in the world, about 160,000 of the birds which rescued early Mormon pioneers from crop-eating insects and which have been designated Utah's state bird.
	www.stoplegacyhighway.org /gsl.htm (1933 words)

	Life in the Great Salt Lake
		Actually, the salt concentration of the Great Salt Lake is too low to support high populations of certain algae as we shall see later.
		It was first believed that the corixids found in the Great Salt Lake were simply transported to the lake from nearby freshwater marshes but the consensus now seems to be that they are indeed true inhabitants of the lake.
		The one identified in the lake is Tricorixia verticalis.
	faculty.weber.edu /sharley/AIFT/GSL-Life.htm (1357 words)

	Great Salt Lake. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which covered an extensive area of the Great Basin and was once c.1,000 ft (305 m) deep.
		Promontory Point, a mountainous peninsula 20 mi (32 km) long, extends into the lake from the north; a railroad cutoff on a causeway passes through the neck as it crosses the lake and the Great Salt Lake Desert from Ogden to Lucin, Utah.
		The Bonneville Salt Flats, in the western part of the desert, is a world-famous automobile racing ground.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreatSal.html (381 words)

	The Great Salt Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Great Salt Lake, the largest lake west of the Mississippi River, could fit the state of Rhode Island comfortably within its shores.
		It is a terminal lake (it has no outlet to the sea) and therefore, the level depends upon precipitation.
		The lake's salt content varies depending on its level, but percentages of salt have been as high as 27%, eight times saltier than the ocean.
	www.ogdencvb.org /Davis/gsl.html (373 words)

	Utah - Salt Lake Desert
		The Great Salt Lake occupies 2,500 square miles northwest of Salt Lake City, but it was once part of the much larger Lake Bonneville, which 18,000 years ago extended across 20,000 square miles including parts of Idaho and Nevada.
		The Lake: The lake is famous for its high salinity (which varies between 10 and 25%), second only to the Dead Sea of Israel, but the water tends to be rather smelly and there is not much of interest to see.
		I-80: In some places the salt is covered by a small depth of water; one good place to view the conditions is a rest area on I-80, 15 miles west of Wendover; it is quite an experience to walk a short distance into the salty wasteland.
	www.americansouthwest.net /utah/salt_lake_desert (538 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Effect of Drought on Great Salt Lake
		The eye-catching colors of the lake stem from the fact that Great Salt Lake is hypersaline, typically 3-5 times saltier than the ocean, and the high salinities support sets of plants and animals that affect the light-absorbing qualities of the water.
		Evaporative salt harvesting at Great Salt Lake is an important source of minerals for industrial uses.
		Great Salt Lake hit a 22-year low at 4,198 feet in the fall of 2002, and a near-record low again in October 2003.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16427 (603 words)

	Lucin Cutoff Railroad Trestle--Great Salt Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This article examines the fascinating history of the Great Salt Lake's Lucin Cutoff railroad trestle, from its construction at the beginning of the 1900s to some of the applications that its wood is being used in today.
		The wind and the waves accompanying the intermittent fierce storms on the Great Salt Lake began to take their toll on the trestle, which was no longer being maintained as it had been when it was the railroad's only means of crossing the lake.
		The Great Salt Lake made sure that the poles were not ordinary by the end of their stay in the lake.
	www.trestlewood.com /documents/sources/lucin/lucin.html (4797 words)

	USATODAY.com - Great Salt Lake mercury worries scientists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal scientists studying the Great Salt Lake have found some of the highest levels of mercury ever measured anywhere — prompting concern about some of the migratory birds that feed on the lake's brine shrimp.
		The study's preliminary findings eventually may overturn the long-held idea that areas of the lake's deep brine layer, which has no oxygen, is a kind of disposal system where toxins sink to the lake bed and become inert.
		Though the USGS studies have not found any evidence that mercury in the Great Salt Lake has entered the human food chain, ducks and geese that feed in the lake's wetlands could be subject to the same accumulation found in the eared grebes, said Fish and Wildlife researcher Bruce Waddell.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/2005-02-22-mercury-saltlake_x.htm (496 words)

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		At 12-25% salinity, the Great Salt Lake is one of the saltiest seas in the world.
		The Great Salt Lake is shallow along its mudflats and shorelines, but with an average depth of 20 to 30 feet, 50 feet maximum, it's sufficient.
		I heard somewhere that The Great Salt Lake was rated alongside the Chesapeake Bay for its wind conditions.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Shores/9144 (899 words)

	mn sea grant - great salt lake superior? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Other Great Lakes were affected by the unusual climate in 1998.
		Precipitation could increase 10-20 percent in the northern part of the lake, and up to 10 percent around the rest of the lake.
		Salt and dissolved solids entering the lake from rivers would slowly accumulate due to evaporation.
	www.seagrant.umn.edu /seiche/apr.99/art01.html (1087 words)

	FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake - Welcome! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mission of FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake is to preserve and protect the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem and to increase public awareness and appreciation of the lake through education, research, and advocacy.
		With recent media coverage about Salt Lake City's interest in developing the NW Quadrant of the City, this is a good time to review a planning process initiated by Salt Lake County called the Salt Lake County Shorelands Plan.
		Salt Lake City's NW Quadrant is adjacent to this study area.
	www.xmission.com /~fogsl (1262 words)

	Earthshots: Great Salt Lake, Utah
		The Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, with no outlet rivers running to the ocean.
		Because the lake basin is so shallowly sloped, extra inflow to the lake makes it rise only slowly, but any rise means a large increase in area.
		Highways, causeways, and parts of Salt Lake City were flooded or threatened in the 1980s, costing millions of dollars.
	geochange.er.usgs.gov /sw/changes/anthropogenic/gsl (780 words)

	FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake - Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The breadth and abundance of bird life at Great Salt Lake have earned its designation as a "Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve." Birds of regional, national and international significance are drawn to its 15,000 square miles of water environment, remote islands and shoreline, and 400,000 acres of wetlands.
		Great Salt Lake presents incomparable opportunities for relevant place-based educational experiences in biology, chemistry, geography, geology and weather, as well as in history, language arts and career motivation.
		FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake is a membership organization lead by an active Board of Directors and an Advisory Board consisting of professionals in the scientific, political, literary and broadcast communities.
	www.xmission.com /~fogsl/education/gsled.html (561 words)

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