Bonneville Salt Flats by Xiao Zen 2013/08/30 21:12
The Bonneville Salt Flats, also known as the Bonneville Speedway, borders on Utah and Nevada (USA, North America). Essentially its densely packed salt desert left over from a lake that dried up several thousand years ago. Whereas most deserts have at least some sort of life, salt deserts are completely barren, a desert in the truest sense of the world. No plants grow there, no animals live there, it is completely flat and featureless.
It was about 90 000 acres initially but has shrunken to 30 000 due to salt mining but remains the largest of the many salt flats in the Great Salt Lake region.
Ironically it is this featureless and barren nature that makes it ideal for at least one creatures purposes. The first land speed record was set there in 1914 and has been broken numerous times since in the same location. The tv series Knight Rider & Top Gear and the movies Independence Day & Pirates of the Caribbean: At worlds End were also filmed there.
The Bonneville Salt Flats, also known as the Bonneville Speedway, borders on Utah and Nevada (USA, North America). Essentially its densely packed salt desert left over from a lake that dried up several thousand years ago. Whereas most deserts have at least some sort of life, salt deserts are completely barren, a desert in the truest sense of the world. No plants grow there, no animals live there, it is completely flat and featureless.
It was about 90 000 acres initially but has shrunken to 30 000 due to salt mining but remains the largest of the many salt flats in the Great Salt Lake region.
Ironically it is this featureless and barren nature that makes it ideal for at least one creatures purposes. The first land speed record was set there in 1914 and has been broken numerous times since in the same location. The tv series Knight Rider & Top Gear and the movies Independence Day & Pirates of the Caribbean: At worlds End were also filmed there.
HandsomeDon 2013/08/31 00:16
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