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Great Salt Lake Past and Present: Elevation and Salinity Changes to Utah's Great Salt Lake from Railroad Causeway Alterations
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Great Salt Lake Past and Present: Elevation and Salinity Changes to Utah's Great Salt Lake from Railroad Causeway Alterations |
| Creator | White, James S. |
| Description | Utah's Great Salt Lake contributes and estimated $1.3 billion to the local and regional economy and is a vital food-source for migratory and resident birds. In 1959, the lake was fundamentally changed with construction of an earth-filled, semi-permeable railroad causeway which splits the lake into two "arms". The only flow interaction between these two arms is through the semi-permeable causeway material, and three openings in the causeway. In 2013, two of these causeway openings were closed,... |
| Date | 2015-05-01T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4588 info:doi/10.26076/1dbf-63ed https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/etd/article/5626/viewcontent/2015_White_James.pdf |
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| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023 |
| Publisher | DigitalCommons@USU |
| Subject | Environmental Sciences Other Environmental Sciences Physical Sciences and Mathematics |
