The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, it is the largest of many salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake. It is public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is known for land speed records at the Bonneville Speedway. Access to the Flats is open to the public. It is one of the flattest places on Earth.
The Flats are about 12 miles (19 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, with a crust almost 5 ft (1.5m) thick at the center and less than one inch (2.5 cm) towards the edges. It is estimated to hold 147 million tons of salt, approximately 90% of which is common table salt. It is located next to Wendover, Nevada just north of I-80 in Utah. I describe how the flats were created by one of the largest floods in history. This involves the Bear River and Red Rock Pass in Idaho. The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of the earlier Lake Booneville which once covered over a quarter of Utah until about 17,000 years ago. Most of it drained within one year eventually into the Snake River and the Pacific. Travels with Phil copyrighted by Phil Konstantin -
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You can see some of my photos of the area through this link:
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Photo Credits:
My Own
B.L.M.
Fair Use movie posters
Google Maps
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Video Credits:
1. My Own
2. B.L.M.
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4. National Park Service - Great Basin
5. Jody Perewitz_Bonneville, 203mph on Vimeo.com/33974706 - CC BY 3.0 DEED.png
6. Gyronaut X-1 Restoration Preview GreenHOuse Creation-on Vimeo.com/47597592 - CC BY 3.0
7. Jaymair-Day 3 Ely to Twin Falls Idaho Fire and Ice Tour USA 2016 on Vimeo.com/206379630 - CC BY-SA 3.0
8. Joe Michaud-Salt Flats panorama on Vimeo.com/5412114 - CC BY3.0
9. Speed Freak Sizzle Reel-Subterra Films- on Vimeo.com/82848723 - CC BY 3.0
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Music Credits:
No One Can Stop Us - Audio Hero (Humble Bundle) purchased license
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Links:
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www.blm.gov/press-release/blm...
geology.utah.gov/map-pub/surv....
geology.utah.gov/popular/grea...
ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publicatio...
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ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewe...
www.redbull.com/us-en/mysteri...
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Some films that highlight the Bonneville Salt Flats:
Independence Day (1996, PG-13) - science fiction
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005, PG-13) - biography
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007, PG-13) - adventure
Brigsby Bear (2017, PG-13) - drama
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