Document Type
Poster
Journal/Book Title/Conference
12th Annual Salt Lake County Watershed Symposium
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Publication Date
11-14-2018
Keywords
watershed, Great Salt Lake, shrinking, salinity, water development
First Page
1
Abstract
Great Salt Lake is a terminal lake, with its watershed in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Like all terminal lakes, the water inflows are balanced only by evaporative loss from its surface—when inflows decrease the lake shrinks until evaporation matches that inflow.
Recommended Citation
Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A.; Miller, Craig; Null, Sarah E.; DeRose, R. Justin; and Wilcock, Peter, "Can the Desiccation of Great Salt Lake be Stopped?" (2018). Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications. Paper 1026.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1026
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