Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake is an endorheic saline lake in northern Utah, much saltier than the ocean. It is the remnant of the prehistoric pluvial Lake Bonneville in the Great Basin. It covers an area of around 1,700 square miles, but this is subject to substantial fluctuations. The lake has very high salinity because the natural evaporation rate exceeds the supply of water from the three feeder rivers, which deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals in it each year. It has no outlet to the sea.

Reference

• Morgan, Dale L. (1947). The Great Salt Lake. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 0874804787
• USGS
• Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
• Deseret News