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Science 6 March 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3610, pp. 1027 - 1029
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3610.1027
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Salt Migration to the Northwest Body of Great Salt Lake, Utah

Thomas C. Adams 1

1 19 West South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

Interchange of saline lake water between the northwest body of Great Salt Lake, Utah, comprising about one-third of the lake area, and the main body of the lake, has been severely restricted by the completion of a railroad embankment across the lake in 1959. The northwest body has a relatively small volume of inflow and a somewhat greater rate of evaporation than the main body. As a result, there has been a net flow of saline water northward and accompanying deposition of a thick layer of salt over the bottom and shore of the northwest body. A unique set of hydrologic and physical-chemical influences are in action, and further important effects on the entire lake are expected.

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