Monday, January 28, 2013

Gallery: Rainbow of Life in Great Salt Lake

Utah's Great Salt Lake 

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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