Great Salt Lake Desert

noun

1. an arid region in NW Utah, extending W from the Great Salt Lake to the Nevada border. 110 miles (177 km) long; about 4,000 sq. mi. (10,360 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Researchers believe hunter-gatherers in the Great Salt Lake Desert may have sucked or smoked wads of the plant.

From BBC

Today, the Great Salt Lake Desert is a large dry lake.

From BBC

Duke has spent the past 20 years combing the chalky white expanse of Great Salt Lake desert, relying on a mix of wind-whipped erosion and luck to uncover evidence of ancient humans at a site archeologists refer to as Wishbone.

From Scientific American

Slowed by parachutes, the 32-inch-wide capsule will land on Sept. 24, 2023, at the Utah Test and Training Range, a vast, desolate expanse in the Great Salt Lake Desert.

From New York Times

Photographer David Maisel’s current and eerily timely body of work, titled Proving Ground, depicts, from the air, parts of an 800,000-acre chemical weapons testing facility in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert.

From The Guardian