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A Fresh Look at the Geobiology & Sedimentary Environments of the Hypersaline Great Salt Lake, USA
Author(s) -
NICOLL Kathleen
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta geologica sinica ‐ english edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1755-6724
pISSN - 1000-9515
DOI - 10.1111/1755-6724.12266_20
Subject(s) - salt lake , salt water , library science , history , oceanography , geology , computer science , paleontology , structural basin
1 Introduction The Great Salt Lake(GSL)is the defining hydrological feature of the Great Basin,North America’s largest desert--and it is the largest waterbody in the western USA.Despite the early(Eardley,1938)recognition of'bioherms,'algal layers,and mats covering hundreds of square km of lake area,these features have not been the