Lake Bonneville: Geology and Hydrology of the Weber Delta District, Including Ogden, U Tab
Lake Bonneville: Geology and Hydrology of the Weber Delta District, Including Ogden, U tab GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 518 Prepared cooperatively by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation with the cooperation of the Utah State Engineer Lake Bonneville: Geology and Hydrology of the Weber Delta District, Including Ogden, Utah By J. H. FETH, D. A. BARKER, L. G. MOORE, R. J. BROWN, and C. E. VEIRS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 518 Prepared cooperattvely by the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation with the cooperation of the Utah State Engineer UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. 66-260 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington, D. C. 20402 PREFACE During much of Pleistocene time, and probably earlier, northern Utah was occupied by lakes of large extent. The best known and last widespread lake in this area was Lake Bonne ville. At maximum extent, Lake Bonneville was approximately as large as Lake Michigan, about 20,000 square miles, and as much as 1,000 feet deep. The relics of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville are modern Utah Lake, Great Salt Lake, and Sevier Lake. In 1890 the U.S. Geological Survey published G. K. Gilbert's classic study of Lake Bonne ville, which is still the only study of the lake that includes its entire basin. In 1946 the Geo logical Survey began a restudy of the geology of the Bonneville Basin to evaluate in greater detail the geologic history and the resources of the region (Hunt and others, 1953; Bissell, 1963; Williams, 1963).
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