A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Bonneville Salt Flats, western Utah |
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| Description | The Bonneville Salt Flats in western Utah, near the Nevada border, seem to extend endlessly. The desert floor here is 100% halite, common table salt. The salt was originally deposited by evaporation of the Great Salt Lake, and later modified when salty groundwaters came to the surface and the evaporated. |
| Location | USA ▹ Utah. Near Wendover, Nevada. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2001-04-04. |
| Collection | E111014992F. |
| Key words | salt, halite, Great Salt Lake, Bonnevill Salt Flats |
| Tech details | 439 KB. Vista. Canon Eos Rebel, 55 mm lens, Fuji Provia 100. |
| GeoDIL number | 283 |
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