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Identifier: scottishgeograph18scotuoft (find matches)
Title: Scottish geographical magazine
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Scottish Geographical Society Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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partly buried byLake Bonneville sediments. After Gilbert.—(U.S.G.S. Monograjyh I.) as sharply as do the present islands from the water-level of the SaltLake. Locally these half-hidden mountains are knoAvn as islandsto-day. (See Fig. 2.) Existing Remnants.—The Great Salt Lake, greatly exceeding inmagnitude the combined area of all other remnants of the ancient water-body, has been specially described.^ Utah Lake is a fresh-water body, 27 miles in length by 12 inbreadth, with an area of 127 square miles. It drains northward throughthe Jordan River into Great Salt Lake. It receives its supply from theProvo, American Fork, and Spanish Fork rivers, and from smallerstreams locally called creeks. During the irrigation season most ofthe water-supply is diverted at higher levels, and the lake level islower. Sevier Lake occupies a depressed area in Millard County, withwaters intensely saline. It is virtually a playa of variable dimensions, 1 See tliis Magazine, December 1901, pp. (317-644.
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458 SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHICAL MAGAZINE. attaining in more humid seasons an extent of from 180 to 200 squaremiles, while during periods of drought it practically dries away, leavinga crystalline deposit of sodium chloride and sulphate several inches indepth, to mark its site. Shore Lines.—The mountain-sides, against which the ancient Avatersbeat, reveal the successive levels by shore lines and littoral terraces, inplaces so distinct, that even the wayfarer, unskilled in deciphering fieldphenomena, describes them as old water margins. In some sections,terraces of deposition declare the former boundaries; elsewhere, wave-cut cliffs, sea-caves, and ripple marks, as plain as those now forming onthe lake shore, define the outline. There is a succession of shore lines extending from the present lake ^..

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