7 Mar
2014
7 Mar
'14
5:56 p.m.
Congratulations, Patrick, on a very pleasing picture of part of the southern arm of the Great Salt Lake, and on capturing it on a day when the air was quite clear. I want to point out that there may be some confusion by viewers with regard to the "causeway" in the photograph. As accurately described in the EPOD description, this is an earthen dike entrapping water in Stansbury Bay for the purpose of mineral extraction. It is not the Union Pacific Railroad's causeway far to the north that divides the saltier northern arm from the southern arm of the lake, and is the subject of many studies about the relative salinity of the two arms of the lake. Ed