Utah's Great Salt LakeCredit: The Great Salt Lake image via Shutterstock In
the northern part of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, the salt concentration of
the water can reach ten times that of the oceans and hovers near
saturation. As a result life is sparse here. Pigments in the cells of
salt-loving microbes give the water a rosy hue. Above, the inner circles
of Robert Smithson’s environmental sculpture Spiral Jetty located in
the lake. For the rest of the story: http://www.livescience.com/26621-photos-life-great-salt-lake.html
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