During the last ice age, the great weight of the glaciers covering what is now The Great Lakes area actually lowered the land. It has been slowly rising up again since all the glaciers melted.
The melting of the glaciers provided tremendous amounts of water that scoured out pathways to the Pacific. They also filled the Great Lakes and overflowed to make rivers to the Atlantic.
The water flow created a river to The Great Salt Lake but not enough water enters it now to let it overflow to the sea. So the water just evaporates and keeps getting saltier.
He thought he had discovered part of the pacific ocean
The salinity of Great Salt Lake is variable: between 5 % and 27 %.
Great Salt Lake is in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and therefore on the continent of North America.
The largest natural lake in Indiana is Lake Wawasee. The largest reservoir is Lake Monroe. I believe Lake Wawasee is 3rd or 4th on the list as far as largest, so it depends on whether you want to know the largest natural lake or just largest body of water.
Both the Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea are salt lakes. Both lakes are also endorheic basins as well, meaning that they are a closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to other bodies of water. Both lakes are hypersaline too, meaning that they have high salinity, or dissolved salt content.
Not even close. Lake Ontario has an area of 7,300 square miles, while the Great Salt Lake is 1,700 square miles.
Yes, it is. And it is not the only landlocked body of salt water in the world. The Dead Sea and the Caspian Sea are two others
Lake eyer is another in Australia, when it is full it has a very high concentration of salt.
Because there is so much salt in it, Dead Sea water is very dense compared with fresh water or ordinary sea water. And because less objects or surface floats in water.
An example of it is a needle, tissue and a tap water.
When you put the needle in the water it will sink because it is denser than the water, but when you use the tissue to let the needle float the density of the needle lesses, and it is called surface tension.
To answer this, a couple of assumtions are made. The average depth is 4.3m, and the surface area is 4400 km². Assuming these numbers are static (which they are NOT due to rainfall and heat evaporation), and ignoring the fact that the shoreline changes with depth of the water, the computation follows.
4.4(6) * 4.3 = 18.92(6) cubic metres
1 gallon = 3.78l
1 litre = .001 cubic metre
18.92(6) cu. metre = 18.92(9) litres
18.92(9) litres equals just a hair over 5 billion gallons, close enough that the rounding to 2 sigfigs wipes it out.
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Sorry, I am not as versed in metric, but the answer is actually 5 trillion (not billion) gallons. Wikipedia gives the volume as 18.92 cubic kilometers, which is 4.5 cubic miles. A cubic mile contains 1.1 trillion gallons, which would make the volume of 4.5 cubic miles about 5 trillion gallons. Wikipedia also gives the volume as 15.3 million acre-feet. 15.3 million x 43,560 square feet in an acre = 666 billion cubic feet. 1 cubic foot of water = 8.1 gallons. 666 billion cubic feet x 8.1 gallons = 5.4 trillion gallons. Caveats regarding the changing volume of the lake due to weather conditions apply.
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I indeed make a mistake. The conversion from 4400 km² to m² was inaccurate. It is 4.4(9) instead of 4.4(6). This makes the final answer 18.92(12) which does come to 4.998 trillion gallons.
Wilson's Phalarope (a shorebird) is found in the largest concentration in and around the Great Salt Lake. Wildlife is abundant and the lake also provides habitat for animals like bison, elk, antelope, deer, bobcats and coyotes. Other than these, the lake supports millions of birds like stilts, pelicans, swallows, peregrine falcons, gulls and eagles. But owing to the salinity of the lake, very few fish can live here and its mostly brine shrimps. However the south end of the lake is known to have sharks and fish.
The Salt Lake is at least six times larger.
They'd get wet!
The Great Salt Lake is so dense, that you may find it hard to sink if you try to swim in it! The Lake is so dense, because tons of salt enter the lake every year, and there's no river for the salt to exit, so the lake stays salty. All the salt pushes you up if you are in the Lake, making you float!
Salt water lakes ,like the Dead Sea, has no outlet. Solar evaporation from the water's surface far outstrips the amount of water flowing into it. The salinity increases until the water is saturated whereupon salt crystals precipitate out.
Irrigation of farmland causes the same , but less drastic,problem.
It was part of Lake Bonneville, which was part of the sea. As land grew higher the water gathered down.
There is no outlet to the lake; it's virtually an inland sea. The salt from the surrounding mountains has continued to gather in the lake for the past 10,000 years since lake Bonneville disappeared. However there are salt evaporation ponds that a Salt Mining company uses to extract salt from the lake which continues to reduce its salinity.
A:The water flowing into the lake from the mountains carries dissolved mineral salts that have been removed from rocks and soils along the way. After the water enters the lake, there is only one way out - evaporation. As the water evaporates, it leaves behind the salts it brought into the lake, thus increasing the salinity of the lake water.It's estimated that more than 2 million tons of salts are added to the lake each year. As a result, the Great Salt Lake is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, with only the Dead Sea, on the border between Jordan and Israel, having a higher salinity. Depending on the lake level, the salinity of the lake in historic times has ranged from about 27% (7.7 times as salty as ocean water) to about 5% (1.4 times as salty).
Australia's largest lake is Lake Eyre, in northern South Australia. 144 km long and 77 km wide, it covers an area of 1 349 251 hectares or 9 690 square km. However, most of the time it is a dry saltpan or, more correctly, a salt sink.
Australia's largest natural freshwater lake is Lake Mackay in Western Australia, which is 3 494 sq km in area.
Well I guess it is possible but not likely because the salt in the lake helps you float, but maybe if you had a bowling ball or something attached to your leg, or someone was holding your head down in the water which would be scary) you would probably drown.
Lake Tahoe: Depth-1,645 ft
Length- 22 mi (35 km)
Shoreline-72 mi (116 km)
Lake Mead: Depth-500 ft
Length-112 miles (180 km) when the lake is full,
Shoreline-550 miles (890 km)
So Lake Mead is longer but Lake Tahoe is deeper.
the average temperature of the Great Salt Lake is an average of 81.72 degrease Fahrenheit for the month of June 2008.
The lake has an average depth of 14 feet. See the related link for more information.