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Great Salt Lake (other)
Great Salt Lake is a saline like in Utah, USA; the largest inland saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. Great Salt Lake may also refer to: Places * Great Salt Lake State Park, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA * Great Salt Lake Legacy Parkway Scenic Byway, Davis County, Utah, USA * Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah, USA; a desert in northern Utah, a dry lake between the Great Salt Lake and Nevada Formerly named * Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, USA; former name of Salt Lake City, Utah * Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory, USA; former name of Salt Lake County, Utah * Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory, USA; former name of Salt Lake Valley, Salt Lake County, Utah Other uses * "The Great Salt Lake", a 2006 song and single by Band of Horses from the album ''Everything All the Time'' * Great Salt Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA), a BSA regional administrative council located in Utah, USA See also * Great Salt Lake wreck, a 1944 train wreck in Bagley, Utah, USA * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particularly through lake-effect snow. It is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric body of water that covered much of western Utah. The area of the lake can fluctuate substantially due to its low average depth of . In the 1980s, it reached a historic high of , and the West Desert Pumping Project was established to mitigate flooding by pumping water from the lake into the nearby desert. In 2021, after years of sustained drought and increased water diversion upstream of the lake, it fell to its lowest recorded area at , falling below the previous low set in 1963. The lake's three major tributaries, the Jordan, Weber, and Bear rivers together deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in the lake per year. Since the lake has no outl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
