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The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere [1] and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. [2] It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate , particularly through lake-effect snow .
The Great Salt Lake is the remnant of the deepest part of the lake, where the depth was once as much as 1,000 feet (300 m). During the Pleistocene, glaciers formed in the mountains, and in the case of the Temple Lake Stade and Gannett Peak Stade, advanced 4,000 years ago in the Holocene. [5]
Cobb Peak is set in the Great Salt Lake Desert which has hot summers and cold winters. [7] The desert is an example of a cold desert climate as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool.
Graham Peak is set in the Great Salt Lake Desert which has hot summers and cold winters. [7] The desert is an example of a cold desert climate as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool.
Utah Department of Natural Resources said Monday in a news release the Great Salt Lake dipped Sunday to 4,190.1 feet (1,277.1 meters). Lake levels are expected to keep dropping until fall or ...
The range runs from northwestern Utah County–central & eastern Tooele County, to the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. The highest elevation is Flat Top Mountain at 10,620 ft (3,237 m). The name Oquirrh was taken from the Goshute word meaning "wood sitting." [2]
The Promontory Mountains are a block fault range typical of the Basin and Range Province.The west side of the range is bounded by the East Great Salt Lake normal fault which passes under the lake along the west side of Antelope Island and on to the south shore of the lake to the west side of the Oquirrh Mountains where it continues on strike as the Oquirrh Fault.
Promontory Point is the promontory or southernmost point of the peninsula formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake in southeastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States. [1] [2] Promontory Peninsula with the Lucin Cutoff crossing the end of the peninsula