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Monday, 21 November 2022
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Going through some old photos, I came across these that I took as we were flying over the Great Salt Lake on my flight from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas.
A view of the salt marshes to the east of the Great Salt Lake.
Antelope Island, which was formerly an island in the lake, however dropping water levels have exposed the land to the east of the island, no longer making this an island.
Another former island, Stansbury Island, which is further to the west.
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A group of experts from Utah is warning that more awareness is needed to preserve the long-term stability of Great Salt Lake. Their concern is that, given a loss of[...]
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Thanks to a railroad causeway that divides it into two halves, Utah’s Great Salt Lake has provided researchers with a neat natural laboratory for some time. The separation makes it[...]
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I saw mention of thrombolites exposed along the shore of the Great Salt Lake the other day in my Facebook feed; because the description cited a professor at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, I prompted my friend and colleague Tiffany Rivera, also a geology professor at Westminster, to go check it out and get me some bloggable photos. As it turned out, she already had – and was there
Check out the Natural History Museum of Utah’s behind the scenes weekend in pictures. This gallery features an adventure to Great Salt Lake where researchers—including one of our geologists, Tom Chidsey and Michael Vanden Berg—pulled up microbialites for display at the museum. VIEW GALLERY
Great Salt Lake’s North Arm is a little salty, even for Great Salt Lake. The Union Pacific railroad causeway is a factor in the build-up of salt crust in the north arm. The Railroad will be starting a bridge-building project to replace a part of the causeway, mitigating some of the water flow issues. Two
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Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2015 Alpenglow illuminates the glacially sculpted Stansbury Mountains as seen from the shores of Great Salt Lake. Deseret Peak (11,031 feet), the leftmost high summit, is the range’s highest peak and is underlain by Cambrian-age Prospect Mountain
phys.org Much of what we understand about earthquakes is based on plate tectonics. But for residents of Utah’s seismically restless Wasatch Front, a 120-mile-long metropolitan region anchored by Salt Lake City and bounded by the steep Wasatch Mountains and Great Salt Lake, such theory has fundamental limitations. READ
ksl.com For those who have seen piles of white, pillowed foam along the shores of the Great Salt Lake and wondered what caused it, the Utah Geological Survey has an answer. READ
Utah’s Great Salt Lake covers an area around 1,700 square miles, making it the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. That expansiveness, however, is offset by the relatively shallow[...]
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The new Earthlearningidea, published today is 'Why is the Dead Sea dead? - measuting salinity'. This involves a simple activity to measure the density of water of different salinities. Pupils can visualise how the measurement of the density of a liquid equates to the commercial measurement of density in situations like that of the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake.
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fox13now.com Utah’s Great Salt Lake has been protecting the Wasatch Front from a potential health hazard for 150 years, but that protection is threatened, say some scientists, by a growing, thirsty population and a drying climate. READ
We’ve got some Great Salt Lake trivia for you to end the day on—how many think you can answer correctly?? Check out our “Glad You Asked” article below for the answers. 1. What do Great Salt Lake, the Bahamas, the old Hansen Planetarium in downtown Salt Lake City, the Manti LDS Temple, and Hearst Castle
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Silver Island Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2013 Chemical weathering produces pits and holes in the surface of Jurassic-age quartz monzonite at Crater Island, in the northeast part of the Basin and Range Province. The “island” of rock rises from the barren, salt-covered plains of the Great Salt Lake Desert east
Check out this other article talking about the levels of Great Salt Lake that are approaching record lows. Andrew Rupke, a geologist and industrial minerals specialist here at the Utah Geological Survey, talks about the effects a low shoreline has on mineral density. deseretnews.com Dave Shearer sees the evidence of water levels dropping in the
Jim Davis, one of our geologists here at the Utah Geological Survey, talks about the Great Salt Lake levels, and the factors that contribute to their rise and fall in this 6PM KSL interview. Check it out! ksl.com Water levels at the Great Salt Lake are just a couple of feet above a record low
washingtonpost.com Dry winters are taking their toll on the Great Salt Lake, which is just a couple feet away from reaching its record low level, set over 50 years ago. READ
Is Great Salt Lake headed for a new ‘great’ low? One of our geologists, Andrew Rupke, talks about what affects the levels and trends of Great Salt Lake. Check it out! www.standard.net Is the level of Great Salt Lake headed for an all-time low? READ
Is that coral in Great Salt Lake? Great Salt Lake was lower than average last summer, exposing coral-like structures that are usually beneath water. Maybe some of you saw them! Great Salt Lake has reef-like structures that resemble coral and are often called coral, yet they are not true coral. Algae build bulbous sedimentary rock