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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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07 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1967. In spite of a yield curve whose topographical equivalent is starting to look something like the Bonneville Salt Flats, real estate experts are predicting economic conditions that bode well for the strength of the commercial leasing and real estate investment sales markets. The current land-speed record for hybrid-powered cars is 131 miles per hour and was set in 2004 by a Toyota Prius on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. |
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