The Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is a wonder of its own. Made by the remnants of Lake Bonneville, this lake is unique to Utah and has many different characteristics that make it this way.
Have you ever wondered how big the Great Salt Lake really is? It is one of the largest lakes in America. The Great Salt Lake is about seventy-five miles long and twenty-five miles wide. Even though the deepest spot in the lake is thirty-four feet the average depth of the Great Salt Lake is around 13 feet. Most large lakes like the Great Salt Lake are around 100 to 300 feet deep. The lake has a surface area of 1700 square miles, and a volume of 15,338,693.6 acres. Today, the Great Salt Lake is connected to Utah Lake by the Jordan River. The Great Salt Lake is the biggest salt-water lake in the U.S. and is know as America’s Dead Sea.
The Great Salt Lake contains 25% salt, more than eight times the salinity of the ocean, which contains 3% salt. Despite the many water deposits, the lake has no rivers that flow out of it. The only way for water to leave the lake is to evaporate out, which is one reason why it is so salty. When Lake Bonneville covered Utah it had the same amount of salt in it as it does today, but it had more then 10 times the space. So when the lake dried up the Great Salt Lake was left and all the salt was left with it. The Dead Sea, which is located in Jordan and Egypt is the largest salt-water lake in the world and is 13,000 feet below sea level. This lake has many things in common to the Great Salt Lake including the fact that is a salt-water lake. The Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea are still not alone. The saltiest body of water in the world is Lake Don Juan in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Don Juan has a salinity level of over 40%, which is 18 times the level of the ocean! The surface area of the lake is 0.03 km2 and even in extreme conditions of -30 degrees Celsius the water stays a liquid. At the Great Salt Lake, many animals can die from
The Great Salt Lake is a wonder of its own. Made by the remnants of Lake Bonneville, this lake is unique to Utah and has many different characteristics that make it this way.
Have you ever wondered how big the Great Salt Lake really is? It is one of the largest lakes in America. The Great Salt Lake is about seventy-five miles long and twenty-five miles wide. Even though the deepest spot in the lake is thirty-four feet the average depth of the Great Salt Lake is around 13 feet. Most large lakes like the Great Salt Lake are around 100 to 300 feet deep. The lake has a surface area of 1700 square miles, and a volume of 15,338,693.6 acres. Today, the Great Salt Lake is connected to Utah Lake by the Jordan River. The Great Salt Lake is the biggest salt-water lake in the U.S. and is know as America’s Dead Sea.
The Great Salt Lake contains 25% salt, more than eight times the salinity of the ocean, which contains 3% salt. Despite the many water deposits, the lake has no rivers that flow out of it. The only way for water to leave the lake is to evaporate out, which is one reason why it is so salty. When Lake Bonneville covered Utah it had the same amount of salt in it as it does today, but it had more then 10 times the space. So when the lake dried up the Great Salt Lake was left and all the salt was left with it. The Dead Sea, which is located in Jordan and Egypt is the largest salt-water lake in the world and is 13,000 feet below sea level. This lake has many things in common to the Great Salt Lake including the fact that is a salt-water lake. The Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea are still not alone. The saltiest body of water in the world is Lake Don Juan in Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Don Juan has a salinity level of over 40%, which is 18 times the level of the ocean! The surface area of the lake is 0.03 km2 and even in extreme conditions of -30 degrees Celsius the water stays a liquid. At the Great Salt Lake, many animals can die from