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Great Salt Lake
shallow saltwater lake in NW Utah, fluctuating greatly in size from 1,100 sq mi to 2,300 sq mi (2,849 sq km to 5,957 sq km)
See Great Salt Lake in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A shallow body of salt water of northwest Utah between the Wasatch Range on the east and the Great Salt Lake Desert on the west. The lake is a remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which covered an extensive area of the Great Basin.
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