Great Salt Lake Research and Maps

By: Jim Davis, J. Wallace Gwynn, and Andrew Rupke This second edition of Commonly Asked Questions about Great Salt Lake and Ancient Lake Bonneville follows more than a quarter-century after the first edition. When the original was published in 1996, Great Salt Lake was at...

By: Buck Ehler Lake Bonneville has inspired, intrigued, and fascinated countless people since the first map depicting its maximum extent was published in G.K. Gilbert's Lake Bonneville monograph in 1890.  Were it not for the prominent Bonneville, Provo, and other relic shorelines across the...

By: D. R. Currey, G. Atwood, and D. R. Mabey Great Salt Lake has intrigued and challenged the explorers, tourists, petroleum geologists, mineral extractors, brine-shrimp harvesters, transportation engineers, health professionals, wildlife biologists, meteorologists, climatologists, hydrologists, geologists, urban planners, and government officials who have tried...

The sticker shows the historical water levels of the Great Salt Lake. The blue regions represent the different levels of the lake over time, with the darkest blue indicating the highest level (Lake Bonneville), the middle blue indicating the intermediate level (Provo Level), and...

While looking for the mysterious Great Salt Lake Monster, a group of kids makes many other interesting discoveries about the science of Utah's Great Salt Lake.

By: Dale L. Morgan The Great Salt Lake is a remarkable book, written by a remarkable man. After the passage of nearly a half-century, it remains one of the most informative and readable general histories of Utah yet written; a tribute to the brilliance...

Through more than 200 extraordinary photographs, discover the beauty, fragility, and timeless wonder of Great Salt Lake as it teeters on the brink.As Great Salt Lake began to recede at an alarming rate, photographer Chris Carlson felt compelled to document this extraordinary natural wonder...

Copublished with the Tanner Trust Fund, J. Willard Marriott Library.Robert Smithson’s earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece from local...

For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and...

Map of the full length of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail from Logan to Salt Lake Media:       24 lb paper - rolled                 7 mil polypropylene (waterproof, tearproof) - rolled             

By: Alan Millard Pictorial wraps. Featuring area history, geology, ecology and culture.  Other Information: 2005. First edition.Paperback. 125pp.