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Bonneville Salt Flats
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Bonneville Salt Flats (bŏn`əvĭl, bŏ`nēvĭl, bŏn`vĭl), desert area in Tooele co., NW Utah, c.14 mi (22.5 km) long and 7 mi (11.2 km) wide. The smooth salt surface of the Flats is ideal for auto racing, and several world land speed records have been set there. The Flats are part of Great Salt Lake Desert, NW Utah, the former bed of

Lake Bonneville, whose area once covered c.19,500 sq mi (50,500 sq km). The lake expanded during the late Cenozoic era, then shrank rapidly at the end of the Pleistocene epoch. Six terraces indicate different lake levels. Great Salt Lake Great Salt Lake, shallow body of saltwater, NW Utah, between the Wasatch Range on the east and the Great Salt Lake Desert on the west; largest salt lake in North America.
..... Click the link for more information. , Lake Sevier, and Utah Lake Utah Lake, c.145 sq mi (380 sq km), N central Utah; largest freshwater lake in the state. It drains through the Jordan River to the Great Salt Lake. Utah Lake is what remains of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville.
..... Click the link for more information.  are remnants of Lake Bonneville, which was named for U.S. explorer Benjamin de Bonneville.



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1 -- 2) At top, Earl Wooden stands next to his Crosley Coupe after a time trial at the Bonneville Flats in Utah.
FUELING THE NEED FOR SPEED HOT ROD RACER TO TRY RECORD-SMASHING RUN by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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