Why is the Great Salt lake in Utah so salty?

Answer 1

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).

Answer 2

The great salt lake is salty because there's no outlet so the lakes that run in it just build it up like when rocks go in the great salt lake the minerals come off and make it salty!!!!!

Answer 3

Because it was an ocean before turning into a lake so the water evaporated and left all the salt.

Answer 4

A simple answer is that there isn't an outlet. Once the water goes into the lake, there isn't anywhere for it to go-- except for evaporation, which leaves the salt.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It has no outlet and its tributary rivers deposit salt, which is left when its water evaporates.