| Abstract: | The Great Salt Lake Desert is a lake basin of about the same size and nature as that of Great Salt Lake, and the two are connected by a spillway or low pass about 25 feet above the present level of the lake (4195 feet). Events in the last 11,000 years of the desert basin are inferred from a series of shallow cores taken across the basin, from a series of measured sections of the banks of the canals of the potash works on the west side, from a study of the gypsum sand dunes on the east side, from Cāā dates of the calcareous sediments, and from a consideration of istostatic adjustment and tilting incident to the disappearance of Lake Bonneville. |
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