Talk:Lake Bonneville

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Lake Chad is not prehistoric, and Quite a bit of the Aral Sea is still there. This technically fits the definition of a former lake, so I am replacing the category. --DanielCD 16:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Map of the lake's boundaries
A map of the extent of Lake Bonneville, similar to from the Lake Lahontan article would be nice, If anyone can dig one up that can be used in this article. --Lethargy 03:40, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It would be good to have it in the article, but in the meantime, see Reference 1 and the External link. SpellcheckW7 (talk) 22:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

The link to the page on the Brigham Young University server, to http://geologyindy.byu.edu/faculty/rah/slides/Rock%20Canyon/Lake%20Bonneville/paleo_map.htm, is broken or contains an error. The second external reference listed, to the Utah Geological Survey, has several interactive maps which are good, and which might merit their own links. A map on the Wikipedia page is definitely desirable. Aramink (talk) 19:11, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

More Pictures?
"Several levels of the old shorelines are still visible above Salt Lake City, along the Wasatch Front and elsewhere." Would it be possible for someone who may have pictures of these shorelines to upload those images to this entry? I think they would be a great addition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.170.74 (talk • contribs)


 * Shouldn't be a prob. for anyone living in or near Salt Lake. The shorelines are very prominant. --DanielCD 18:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Science Channel error?
I just watched a show on the Science Channel that said in effect: "Lake Bonneville did not empty as a result of a natural dam breaking, but rather evaporated down to present day Great Salt Lake."

I was doubtfull of that statement, as I had learned the opposite in college geology. Thanks, Wikipedia, for confirming what I knew. Now, how do we break the truth to the Science Channel?


 * To say that Wikipedia is unequivocally correct without doing more research to verify that the Science Channel is indeed wrong on the matter, is quite trusting (and rather stupid), especially of an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Even the research pages referenced can be wrong. Furthermore, the Great Salt Lake is not called so without due cause, it's always been attributed to evaporation that it has so much salt in it. Candykilobyte 17:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Candykilobyte (talk • contribs)
 * Apparently you missed what the anonymous user said, which was that it was what he learned in college geology, not just wikipedia, not that that's proof. SpellcheckW7 (talk) 22:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Lake Bonneville only partially emptied during the Bonneville Flood - it dropped ~ 100 m from what is known as the Bonneville highstand to the Provo highstand and continued to empty into the into the Snake River Basin until the lake started to regress below the threshold near Red Rock Pass. After the lake regressed below the threshold the only output to the system is essentially evaporation. I am not exactly sure what the Science Channel stated regarding the flood but they are correct that the Great Salt Lake is an evaporative remnant of Lake Bonneville. Bonneville Utah (talk • contribs) 07:01, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

"Modern" Lake Bonneville
A Lake Bonneville appears on early maps of Northern California. I am trying to figure out if it was renamed, discovered to be part of the Bay, or simply a phantom lake, akin to a phantom island. Alas, this better known Lake Bonneville dominates research results. I'm pretty much leaving this message as a "wanted article" notice, should anybody with knowledge or time run across it. 74.240.193.8 (talk) 01:29, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

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