[DOC] [TLE] Bonneville Salt Flats history - Bureau of Land Management [PAR] Nov 21, 2012 ... Thousands of visitors, commercial film makers, and land speed racers make the 
... 17,000 years ago, the water exceeded 1,000 feet deep over the salt flats. ... As 
Lake Bonneville receded, evaporation left large concentrations of ... which 
equates to about 147 million tons, or 99 million cubic yards, of salt! [DOC] [TLE] Lake Bonneville - Utah History to Go - Utah.gov [PAR] Lake Bonneville, the most recent larger lake, formed the most striking of ... cliffs 
that are as high as a thousand feet above the present Great Salt Lake. ... area of 
a closed-basin lake primarily control the amount of water evaporated from the 
lake. ... One such rise occurred about 140,000 years ago when the lake in the 
basin... [DOC] [TLE] Lake Bonneville - Wikipedia [PAR] Lake Bonneville and other ice age pluvial lakes (17,500 years before the present
), and modern remnants. Lake Bonneville was a prehistoric pluvial lake that 
covered much of the eastern part of North ... Formed about 32,000 years ago, 
Lake Bonneville existed until about 14,500 years ago, when a large portion of the 
lake... [DOC] [TLE] Great Salt Lake, Utah - USGS Publications Warehouse [PAR] Lake. Bonneville existed from about 30,000 years ago to 16,000 years ago. Four 
ancient ... yas (salt flats) in the basin, Great Salt Lake is believed to have ... 2.2 
million tons of salt. About 4.3 ... of thousands of waterfowl use the lake season- 
ally. .... large solar evaporation ponds located near ... Gunnison Bay on left, 
Gilbert. [DOC] [TLE] The Great Salt Lake - Lakelubbers [PAR] The lake is situated east of the Bonneville Salt Flats, a part of the Great Salt Lake 
Desert in ... The lake is thought to have formed about 32,000 years ago but 
geologic ... entirely upon evaporation for drainage until each lake evaporated 
entirely. ... Over thousands of years, the standing water in the lake develops such 
a high... [DOC] [TLE] Salt Flats - Formation, Activity, and Examples - Geography - About.com [PAR] Salt flats were once large lakes or seas- now vanished, they have left their ... 
minerals and as lakes dry up through thousands of years of evaporation the ... 
very large Lake Bonneville that existed in the area about 17,000 years ago. ... 
The Bonneville Salt Flats are about 90% salt and consists of about 147 million 
tons of salt... [DOC] [TLE] Utah is Worth its Salt - Wild About Utah [PAR] Nov 21, 2013 ... Bonneville Salt Flats as seen from Interstate 80 in Utah, USA ... Thousands of 
years ago, salt was discovered to have another vital function as a ... But you can 
mitigate by throwing the spilled salt over your left ... That's because as the 20,000 
square miles of water that was Lake Bonneville evaporated, salt... [DOC] [TLE] The Race to Save the Bonneville Salt Flats from a Slushy Demise ... [PAR] Aug 27, 2015 ... The Bonneville Salt Flats were flooded by heavy rains last winter. ... The flats 
formed 17,000 years ago as a vast saline lake. As the water evaporated over 
millennia, a thick layer of salt remained on the lakebed. ... mine than was being 
replenished by natureabout 45 million to 70 million metric tons in all,... [DOC] [TLE] Glacial Formations in Big Cottonwood Canyon | juliadressman [PAR] Dec 1, 2015 ... After the water evaporated in Lake Bonneville and the glaciers melted, ... Lake 
Bonneville was a remote lake that resided in most of Western Utah about 32 
thousand years ago. ... Lake Bonneville held around 5 trillion tons of water. ... 
When all that water evaporated, it left a huge deposit of salt, which now... [DOC] [TLE] Great Salt Lake Gallery Interpreter Training | Natural History ... [PAR] The lake is also surrounded by wetlands and evaporation ponds, which have 
their ... Spiral Jetty; Foam; Oolitic Sand; Lake Effect; Bonneville Salt Flats; Lucin 
Sun Tunnels; Wetlands .... Humans have lived in the Great Basin for thousands of 
years. ... During the last Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago, Lake Bonneville was

Question: When Lake Bonneville evaporated thousands of years ago, it left tons of this on the flats
Answer: salt