...And the warm temperatures and the low precipitation, maybe we could bring Lake Bonneville back!Left: The current situation: The level of the Great Salt Lake at Saltair....
And this is the goal....Pluvial lakes and glaciers in the Great Basin at their maximum late Pleistocene extent. Darker blue areas are late Pleistocene pluvial lakes: Bonneville, Lahontan, Russell (Mono), Searles, Manix, Manly, Kawich, and Mojave.
Map courtesy of Jerry. Original reference: Morrison, R.B., 1991, Quaternary stratigraphic, hydrologic, and climatic history of the Great Basin, with emphasis on Lakes Lahontan, Bonneville, and Tecopa, in Morrison, R.B., ed., Quaternary Nonglacial Geology: Conterminous U.S: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America, p. 283-320.
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