Lake Bonneville: The Lake That Covered Most of Utah
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Today we are talking about the Lake that used to cover most of Utah. In a time long ago Salt Lake City would have been covered in water. Now the history of Utah is directly affected by what is left behind.
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I grew up in Utah. This is so beautiful and inspiring. We forget what an amazing land is under our feet. Thank you.
Couldn’t agree more! Thank you for the comment
Great video!! Love your passion for history and for our beloved UT!!❤
Thank you so much for watching!
I live in Southern Utah and Lake Bonneville is one of my favorite topics concerning the geological past of Utah. However, what we know about Lake Bonneville is not an exact science. Estimates of its size range from 20,000 square miles (mentioned in your video) to 32,000 square miles. Depths range from 980 feet to well over 1000 feet with lake elevations ranging from 5090 feet to 5135 feet. It’s exact age is also up for debate with some estimates going back to 800,000 years ago.
So, understanding the geology and history of Lake Bonneville is in my opinion still a work in progress. I myself have done over 17 years of field research visiting and mapping out its ancient shorelines. I hope to write a book someday on all the research I have accumulated over this period.
Research that I believe will put into question some long held notions on how the Lake was formed and what lead to it’s demise. I will tell you this though, Lake Bonneville reached elevations far above the 5090 to 5135 feet range often quoted. I suspect it was perhaps 100 feet or more higher than those elevations. I have mapped in out on Google Earth using its satellite imagery. And I have field checked many of these ancient shoreline scene from Google Earth . I have even collected samples, in particular shells of some kind of fresh water snail that once lived on the ancient shores of this lake. All this evidence suggests a deeper lake and puts into question the Red Rock Pass dam narrative.
I could go into much greater detail but for sake of brevity, suffice to say, there is far more to this story of Lake Bonneville than we are being told. Hopefully, in time it’s true history will be fully revealed.
That is very fascinating! Thank you so much for your comment. Excited to see your book when you have completed it!
Are you saying there is evidence of water exiting some where else other than Red Rock ?
But anyways , if you are going off of some higher shoreline evidence , couldn't that be explained by earthquake tsunamis ?
Well please get to writing
Well yes and no. I personally believe Red Rock Pass was the natural outflow of Lake Bonneville when it was at the 5000' range. However, I also believe the elevation of Lake Bonneville was much higher than has been suggested. Possibly in the 5500' range.
This would have allowed a shallow flow outlet near Kanarraville thus allowing drainage into the Virgin River then into the Colorado River then emptying nto the Sea or Cortez or Gulf of California.
So, at one time two drainage points.
In order for this to happen there must be something else besides the landscape or geology of the area of lake to explain it? My research has led me to believe that something was an ice dam created by glaciers that covered most of Idaho during the ice Age that blocked the Red Pass outlet for a time allowing Lake Bonneville a much greater foot print.
I go into this in much greater detail in my book which is still being worked in but hopefully will soon be published.
@@weldenjon Well seems possible with the south east portion of Idaho experiencing geological changes due to vulcanism and flood wash to erase evidence .
Just not sure on the probability factor ?
Nicely done! I lived in Utah for 37 years, 11 months and 364 days. I grew up on the west side of SLC in the Suburbs of Magna. The Great Salt Lake on the right day would always make its presence known. Still love Utah.
Thank you for making such a great video. Your narration and voice are easy to listen to. I’ve lived in Northern Utah my entire life and never knew the details of how Lake Bonneville formed and recessed. I often look at our gorgeous Wasatch Mountains, see the clear water levels on the mountainside and wonder what it looked like then. Utah is so incredibly beautiful but, maybe we should keep that our little secret.
Beautiful indeed! Thank you for watching. It’s too good of a secret not to share.
We were in salt lake 20yrs ago, CLEANEST city I have EVEN been in.
Yeah... it ain't like that no more. Homeless numbers are rising and too many folks moving here from Cali and other states. Definitely not what it was even 10 years ago
@@teti_99 REALLY? what a shame, A-holes move in and trash what once was a beautiful place.
They’re trying to make it more Stunning and Brave with policies that failed in their lefty utopias.
I was just there couple months ago! YOU ARE SO RIGHT! went into Walmart, I've never seen anything like it! Everything and everywhere is so clean!! I LOVED IT
After blm riots city is lame, was choice! Now a democrat ran, crap hole.
funny thing is this lake dried up without humans causing or interfering in the process. When things like this happen today humans freak out and try to stop what the earth is going to do. Sure humans have some impact but the earth has always heated up and cooled down. Living organisms either adapted or died. Instead of fighting, maybe it would be wiser to adapt.
Well said.
😏 I had a college biology teacher say about it in the early 00's "How arrogant is it that humans think they have such a huge impact on the earth‽‽"
Yeah, I recently saw articles about trying to save the lake and was scratching my head.
Because you are being manipulated and lied to. They lie about a lot of things.
Well said. There have been many changes throughout the history of the planet. Mass extinction events, forests turned to deserts and vice versa. I think that everything in the universe is cyclical.
I was raised in Brigham City, you can still find small sea shells on the bonneville shore line (second bench road) i grew up with this story..!!
Great informative video. Thanks for sharing have a wonderful day..!!
Love that!!! Thanks for sharing.
Your videos are so awesome! I’ve lived in Cache Valley my whole life, and I’ve learned so much about my home state while watching your videos. Would love to hear more about Cache Valley if you have the chance.
There is definitely things in the works!
Love your videos! I'm getting more into the history around the Great Salt Lake/Utah and your videos are so informative and well done. Stoked for more
Thank you so much!
Great work man, learned a ton.
Thank you!! I learn new things all the time from you 🙂
this is seriously so cool, and wow it’s also just so beautiful. this deserves more attention for sure, thank you for posting this :)
Very well done! I moved to Utah in ‘93 and I am amazed every single day at the beaUTAHfulness . . .
I live near the west bench in Draper and am always reminded daily of the ancient lake. I take a look around and try to imagine what it would like look liked then.
Thank you, so much, for this lesson in history. I love learning about how the Earth, and our country was formed.
Amazingly great video!
God bless you in all your endeavors!❤😊
Thank you so much for watching!!!
I like your voice, very good. Your tone, cadence, annunciation. You’re chill and sound like yourself.
FishLake was not part of the lakes created by lake Bonneville. Fishlake is very close to 9000 ft in elevation and 2 whole mountain ranges east of where Bonneville was. Great video I really enjoyed it and learned alot. I love looking at the shore line when up in utah and Salt lake valleys.. =)
You are correct! That was my mistake.
This is living! And the inversion at the end to show that it was all worth it. Thank you so much for sharing.
Very informative! I grew up on what we call "the foothills" of Centerville, Utah. I've always known that it was actually part of the ancient shore, but had never heard the full, detailed, story before. Well done! I can't wait until your next video.
Thank you so much!!
I always learn so much when I watch your videos
Great video! Fellow Utahn here. We really do live in a beautiful world, we!
Well done. I've always been entranced by the ancient shoreline. I remember going to church learning about how old the earth is, then seeing the remnants of Lake Bonneville, dinosaurs, Grand Canyon and other places that told me the earth is ancient; which it is, of course.
I missed a turn on a trip to Bear Lake with my Sister and visiting friend from Belgium. I was on my motorcycle, it began raining on the trip North and I wasn't keen getting my new leather jacket wet so I gave it to my Sister in her car. Around the Logan turn off I'd gotten separated and missed the signs to turn off. I landed my ass in Red Rock Pass Idaho and I knew I was in a no bueno situation. I was running low on fuel. I turned back and found a gas station and got on the right route after using the maybe $3.65 in my pocket for gas. I ended up getting cold AF with another rainstorm and followed a semi as close as possible as a wind break and tucking in as close as possible to get heat from the air cooled engine on my '82 Honda Nighthawk 650. I finally landed in Bear Lake and found everyone. This was ling before the days of cell phones. It's a memorable trip. I've actually also been to Danger Cave which was also used to train bomber crews in preparation for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This made my day, been wanting someone to make a video on lake bonneville for a very long time!
Thanks!
Good video!
I grew up here! On the edge of The Great Salt Lake and Bonneville Salt Flats.
Or I imagine it’s your normal speaking voice, lol. It sounds so.
Nice work!!
Very professional video! Well done.
Fascinating stuff, and great editing :)
Thank you! My theory was right about a shore line on a mountain
That’s awesome
It's not a theory. You can see the waterline on the Wasatch. Thought you was Bill Nye for a bit. Didn't ya?
Excellent!!!
And it's returned ...!!! THAT'S how the bruno sand dune came To be....from all the sand scaped off that part of the river.. !!
Awesome..!!
Excellent!
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Thanks!
Lake Bonneville, and Lake Lahontan, and all the isolated, stranded, puddles of water in the Great Basin, were artifacts of the "flood" that washed over the American West, then very different from the landscape we know, today. Bonneville was not created by a diverted river, but by a wall of water that raced, at tsunami speeds, across the ancient shallow-sea bed once surrounding a polar location in southeastern Utah.
The events of the ancient past (human scale, not rocks), not the archaic past, caused the water than had lain on what we call the Great Plains, today, to race westward, some being trapped in a nearly-400-mile-diameter inland sea that sat atop the Four Corners. That body of water sat there for the better part of two millennia, before it gouged a hole in the volcanic plug at the western end of the Grand Canyon, draining away in a matter of a few hundred years. When it was gone, the Anasazi left in search of greener pastures.
The main body of water, though, sped past the narrow entry to eastern Utah, to flood across the Great Basin. This body ate at the blockages in the (modern-day) Colorado River channel, south of present-day Hoover Dam, splashing over the Transverse Mountains in California, to spill into the Coachella Valley, and some even found an outlet west of Palmdale, to dribble down into California's Big Valley, until water levels dropped too far to allow any more to cross the saddle there.
This is an interesting idea!
Humans never saw it for thousands of years and I already miss it
Great salt lake is like Bonneville
Nice!
Although originally part of Lake Bonneville, the Great Salt Lake & the Bonneville salt Flats are actually two separate basins & one does not flow into the other. The construction of the railroad & later the I-80 freeway, cut off the northern section now known as the Bonneville Salt Flats from the much larger southern part of the lake. Due to salt - potash mining of the Bonneville Salt Flats, the salt is almost gone. The salt crust depth there was once measured in feet & was more than 30 miles long from Wendover to beyond Floating Island to the east but due to mismanagement by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) & various mining companies over the years, the crust is now barely one inch thick & only 5 miles long. Bonneville Salt Flats is dying!
Very insightful and quite sad. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for your comment.
Damn.... I didn't realize the lake has dried up that much.
Btw....I live in Montpelier, Idaho.❤
Thank you for your comments!
I thought that the Bonneville flood like the Missoula flood was the genesis flood remnant.
You know that fish lake is way higher in elevation than scl is fish lake sits at 9000 ft elevation
I just made this comment before I saw yours.. it's a well put together video but this is one error.. it's way to high and two mountain ranges east of where Bonneville was.. still a good video..
We weren’t there. All we can do is speculate using data points. You should look up the melting of the Cottonwood canyon glaciers about the same time when lake B got too much water too quickly. Breach happened somewhere and in very short period it drained. It came close to current GSL levels. The original source of lake B has to be an inland sea that got cut off from the ocean. How else do you explain the abundance of sea salt? Also look up a global event of Younger Dryas which could have caused global cooling/warming about 11k years ago flooding lot of water bodies across the world.
Interesting. I’ll look into it
Solving the West mega drought by damning Red Rock pass perhaps might be possible. This would be similar to greening the Sahara by recreating lake mega Chad. Although the cities might need to be relocated the economic potential of a better climate might outweigh that cost.
Unfortunately no water from the great salt lake flows out toward red rock pass anymore.
fishlake is too high to be connected to lake bonnevile
Yes you are correct I will fix that! Thanks for pointing it out
Where do you get the ages of these events?
The scientific community
@@historyunexplored5312 and where did the "scientific community" get those ages? Or am I just supposed to take your word for it?
Native Americans talked of this lake and traveling up the Mississippi river and reaching the California coast. As if it still existed a couple hundred years ago🤔🍻
Interesting
There is a true documentary stating that the end of the ice age was the cause of the great salt lake along with the issues in Idaho. The bear river never filled the valley up.
The Bear river, Provo river and Weber river were all contributing factors. You are partially correct and as stated in the video it was much colder and wetter at that time (due to the ending of the ice age). The melting water would have flowed from the rivers and thus filled the valley. To say that the bear river never filled the valley is incorrect.
This mega lake never coming back like it used to be right ?...
Right ?
Nothing’s impossible
The dinosaurs movie explained alot of that big glacier that melted.. ..before then is was really cold as the earth began anew from the changes that hit it and made it burpe.. New Life .. take 6...roll um..😂😂
Haha
A correction for you.. bodies of water are to be described in terms of DEPTH, not height! 😂
Nice noted.
Who is this guy? I need to know who is linked to this voice
Your script needs some work, but otherwise well done.
Sweet thanks
Sitting water doesn't curve.
A glass, a bucket, a pool, a pond, a lake, the ocean.
The Earth is 2/3 water?
Most of the United States is flatter than a pancake. Proven. Look it up.
Where's the curvature?
Not a spinning ball!
So sick of modern "preserve the Great Salt Laks" climate alarmists. The reality is that the ABSENCE of a lake in this geographical location is the norm. The presence of a big (salty) lake in this geographical location is the anomaly.
To preserve a large, terminal lake in this location is literally waging a war against Mother Nature. It's impossible.
As a native Utahn from the Ogden area, I'm financially planning to move away from Utah. I love my home state, but I also respect science: my home state is not naturally poised to handle the population that currently inhabits the Salt Lake/Provo/Ogden area. When the GSL dries up (and it will), this area of the state will suffer. Utah will lose its lake effect snow that currently props up its tourism industry of, "the greatest snow on earth."
Recently came back from an extended Alaska vacation - I feel much more secure in my survival in a remote, wet, fertile area of land than in a desert awaiting its only major lake to expire.
Nothing man can do to refill the GSL. It is a terminal lake in one of the driest locations in North America that only exists due to melting north American glaciers from the last Ice Age. When the GSL dries up, Utah will suffer.
Duuuu lake Bonneville was the remenents of a much bigger ocean. Fact check Redmond real salt deposit. Utah
The Sundance sea would have occurred far far before lake Bonneville existed. But I understand your correlation.
It wasn't an "ancient lake " , it was a world wide flood on an unbelieving world . He destroyed it once with water , the last time will be with such intense heat that the elements themselves will melt .
2Peter 3: 10
Intense heat is what makes the elements. So if you hypothetically melt one element you're creating heavier elements in the process.
Basic science. Those kinds of things actually make sense to you though, huh....
Does this make sense to you too?
Jealous god gets angry, mass murders everyone except one incestuous family.
Promises to never flood the world again but will kill everyone again with fire next time negating his own point of promising not to flood the world again.
So stupid
20000 years ago Bonneville was not a word and English was not a language 🤮
This is true
Fair enough, but we still like to name things that used to exist, despite the lack of knowledge known to people! It’d be hard to be like “remember that one giant lake that used to be here?”
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Hahaha thank you!
Well edited and narrated 🫱🏻🫲🏼
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