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Great Salt Lake's Two Deep Brine Layers
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Great Salt Lake's Two Deep Brine Layers |
| Creator | Wurtsbaugh, Wayne A. |
| Description | 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 |
| Date | 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | http://works.bepress.com/wayne_wurtsbaugh/134 http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1133&context=wayne_wurtsbaugh |
| Source | Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh |
| Publisher | SelectedWorks |
| Subject | brine great salt lake Other Life Sciences |
