Great Salt Lake

Brine shrimp, also known as Artemia, are known to live in the Great Salt Lake. They are well adapted to the high salinity levels found in the lake and play a crucial role in the ecosystem as a food source for various bird species.

The plateau where you would find the Great Salt Lake is the Bonneville Salt Flats. This salt flat is located in northwestern Utah, USA, and covers an area of approximately 46 square miles. The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of the much larger Lake Bonneville that once covered this region during the last ice age.

The salinity is so high that it practically neverfreezes. It does, although, fall near freezing during the mid-winter with temperatures too cold to support lake-effect snow. It's not impossible for it to freeze.. just improbable.

That point isn't in Utah at all. It's at the common point where the Canadian provinces

of Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Alberta all meet. That's about 760 miles

north of the nearest point in the USA, and about 1,245 miles north of the nearest point

in the state of Utah (near Laketown and Garden City, on Bear Lake).

well, they both have natural buoyancy which causing people to float more easily. because of the density of the water from the salt.

they are also both hypersaline bodies of water. they are both very salty with many minerals, which are taken out of the waters. 123 smart one 123 =] that's me!

Because all the rivers that run into it carry alkaline and salt minerals. Then as the water evaporates from the lake, the alkaline chemicals and the salts are left behind. Since Mono Lake does not connect with an ocean, its alkaline and salt content keeps on rising, and will continue to rise in the future.

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

Ecause it looks red not pink.

Salt Lake Golden Eagles ended in 1994.

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.

These lakes have no outlets to carry the salts away to the sea.

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.

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.