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Great Salt Lake's Two Deep Brine Layers
Friends of the Great Salt Lake Newsletter (2014)
  • Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, Utah State University
Abstract

Two major causeways that divide the Great Salt Lake have radically changed salt balances in different sections of the lake, and have caused deep brine layers to form. For you scrabble buffs, limnologists call these layers “monimolimnions”. In 1959 the Southern Pacific Railway built a 13- mile rock-fill causeway across the main lake, dividing it in half. T

Keywords
  • brine,
  • great salt lake
Disciplines
Publication Date
2014
Citation Information
Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh. "Great Salt Lake's Two Deep Brine Layers" Friends of the Great Salt Lake Newsletter Vol. 20 Iss. 1 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wayne_wurtsbaugh/134/