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Great Salt Lake Desert

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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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

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.

From Scientific American

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.

From New York Times

Photographer David Maisel’s current and eerily timely body of work, titled Proving Ground, depicts, from the air, parts of an 800,000-acre chemical weapons testing facility in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert.

From The Guardian