For the reservoir known as Lake Bonneville on the Columbia River, see Bonneville Dam and Lake Bonneville (Oregon).
Former pluvial lake in western North America
Lake Bonneville
Map of Lake Bonneville, showing the outline of the Bonneville shoreline, the highest level of the lake.
Lake Bonneville
Location
Utah, Idaho and Nevada
Coordinates
41°N113°W / 41°N 113°W / 41; -113
Type
pluvial lake (a paleolake created by a change in water balance in the basin)
Etymology
Benjamin Bonneville
Surface area
~20,000 sq mi (51,000 km2) (at max. lake level)
Max. depth
over 980 ft (300 m)
Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. It was a pluvial lake that formed in response to an increase in precipitation and a decrease in evaporation as a result of cooler temperatures. The lake covered much of what is now western Utah and at its highest level extended into present-day Idaho and Nevada. Many other hydrographically closed basins in the Great Basin contained expanded lakes during the Late Pleistocene, including Lake Lahontan in northwestern Nevada.
LakeBonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. It was a pluvial lake that formed in response...
The Bonneville Salt Flats are a densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah, United States. A remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville...
Bonneville Lock and Dam /ˈbɒnəvɪl/ consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the...
through lake-effect snow. It is a remnant of LakeBonneville, a prehistoric body of water that covered much of western Utah. The area of the lake can fluctuate...
Broadcast House in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bonneville's name alludes to Benjamin Bonneville and the prehistoric LakeBonneville that once covered much of...
LakeBonneville in northern Utah reached its highest water level since its formation. The lake occupied the present-day basin of the Great Salt Lake,...
record runs Bonneville Dam, on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon states Bonneville Reservoir, known also as LakeBonneville, the reservoir...
Great Basin Desert, and noted for white evaporite LakeBonneville salt deposits including the Bonneville Salt Flats. Wendover (AFB) Wendover Dugway PG Dugway...
The Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii utah) is a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to tributaries of the Great Salt Lake and Sevier Lake...
Lake Valley floor. The Salt Lake Valley floor is the ancient lakebed of LakeBonneville, which existed at the end of the last ice age. Several Lake Bonneville...
lake, having once been an independent hydrological system before the Mediterranean Sea broke through the terrain separating the two. LakeBonneville was...
pluvial lakes formed in what is now the southwestern United States during the glaciation of the late Pleistocene. One of these was LakeBonneville in western...
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (April 14, 1796 – June 12, 1878) was an American officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the...
to Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake after being extirpated during the 20th century. Lahontan Valley Lake Modoc Pluvial lakeLakeBonnevilleLake Corcoran Federal...
Bonneville Shoreline Trail is a mixed use (biking/hiking) recreation trail in Utah that roughly follows the shoreline of the ancient LakeBonneville,...
between the lake's eastern shore and the Wasatch Range. Utah Lake is a remnant of a much larger pleistocene lake called LakeBonneville, which existed...
palaeolakes in the evolution of semidesert basins, with special emphasis on LakeBonneville and the Great Basin, U.S.A". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology...
century, when the existence of Lake Lahontan and LakeBonneville was first described. The possibility of a former lake in Death Valley was also considered...
ISBN 978-1-61069-446-9. Wilkerson, Christine. "Utah's Great Salt Lake and Ancient LakeBonneville, PI39 – Utah Geological Survey". Geology.utah.gov. Archived...
County, Utah. Like Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake, it is a remnant of Pleistocene LakeBonneville. Sevier Lake is fed primarily by the Beaver and Sevier...
for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient LakeBonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his...
Rush Lake (South Dakota) Rush Lake (Iron County, Utah) Rush Lake (Tooele County, Utah), a remnant of LakeBonneville Rush Lake (Wisconsin), a lake in Winnebago...
the lake dried up, the crust rebounded. Today at LakeBonneville, the center of the former lake is about 200 feet (61 m) higher than the former lake edges...
resulting in the Channeled Scablands. LakeBonneville, a pluvial lake, burst catastrophically in the Bonneville Flood about 14,500 years ago, due to its...
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