Data on the Surficial Deposits of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Bonneville Salt Flats and East Part of the Wendover 30' x 60' Quadrangles, Tooele County, Utah

TECTONIC AND CLIMATIC CONTROLS ON DESERT SEDIMENTATION AND SALINE PAN STABILITY: INSIGHTS FROM THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS

10.1130/abs/2020rm-346407 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jeremiah A. Bernau ◽

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Brenda B. Bowen ◽

Mark H. Radwin

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Salt Flats

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Early Holocene Great Salt Lake, USA

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1016/j.yqres.2015.05.001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 84 (1) ◽

pp. 57-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Charles G. Oviatt ◽

David B. Madsen ◽

David M. Miller ◽

Robert S. Thompson ◽

John P. McGeehin

Keyword(s):

Great Basin ◽

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Lake Basin ◽

Basin Floor ◽

Lake Floor ◽

Sulfate Salts ◽

Brine Shrimp Cysts ◽

Surficial Deposits ◽

Apparent Conflict

Shorelines and surficial deposits (including buried forest-floor mats and organic-rich wetland sediments) show that Great Salt Lake did not rise higher than modern lake levels during the earliest Holocene (11.5–10.2 cal ka BP; 10–9 14C ka BP). During that period, finely laminated, organic-rich muds (sapropel) containing brine-shrimp cysts and pellets and interbedded sodium-sulfate salts were deposited on the lake floor. Sapropel deposition was probably caused by stratification of the water column — a freshwater cap possibly was formed by groundwater, which had been stored in upland aquifers during the immediately preceding late-Pleistocene deep-lake cycle (Lake Bonneville), and was actively discharging on the basin floor. A climate characterized by low precipitation and runoff, combined with local areas of groundwater discharge in piedmont settings, could explain the apparent conflict between evidence for a shallow lake (a dry climate) and previously published interpretations for a moist climate in the Great Salt Lake basin of the eastern Great Basin.

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Contrasting the Impact of the Natural Hydrologic Cycles and Legacy Highway Construction on Farmington Bay Wetlands of the Great Salt Lake.

Critical Transitions in Water and Environmental Resources Management ◽

10.1061/40737(2004)13 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

Robb Edgar

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Highway Construction ◽

The Impact

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Bibliographic notes on H. Stansbury's Exploration and survey of …/ Expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2003.30.2.317 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 317-330 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L. J. Dorr ◽

D. H. Nicolson ◽

L. K. Overstreet

Keyword(s):

Salt Lake ◽

Great Salt Lake ◽

Title Page ◽

Classic Work ◽

Us Government ◽

Multiple Issues ◽

Title Pages

Howard Stansbury's classic work is bibliographically complex, with two true editions as well as multiple issues of the first edition. The first edition was printed in Philadelphia; its 487 stereotyped pages were issued in 1852 under two different titles with three variant title-pages (an official US government issue and two trade issues). A second edition was printed in Washington in 1853 and had 495 typeset pages (with corrections and additions in the appendices). The issue of 1855 is identical to the 1852 trade issue, except for the change of the date on the title-page. Each issue and edition, with its bindings and plates, is described.

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