Great Salt Lake Desert

noun

1. an arid region in NW Utah, extending W from the Great Salt Lake to the Nevada border. 110 miles (177 km) long; about 4,000 sq. mi. (10,360 sq. km).

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The not-batteries are shoveled into massive metal containers with soft tops and are trucked to Grassy Mountain, a waste disposal facility in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, officials said.

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Researchers believe hunter-gatherers in the Great Salt Lake Desert may have sucked or smoked wads of the plant.

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Today, the Great Salt Lake Desert is a large dry lake.

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Duke has spent the past 20 years combing the chalky white expanse of Great Salt Lake desert, relying on a mix of wind-whipped erosion and luck to uncover evidence of ancient humans at a site archeologists refer to as Wishbone.

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Slowed by parachutes, the 32-inch-wide capsule will land on Sept. 24, 2023, at the Utah Test and Training Range, a vast, desolate expanse in the Great Salt Lake Desert.

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