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Transcript: Great Salt Lake
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- NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
- Article date:
- May 15, 1998
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IRA FLATOW, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION SCIENCE FRIDAY.
I'm Ira Flatow. And we're here at the Jewett Center for the Performing
Arts at Westminster College in Salt Lake City today, thanks to radio
station KCPW.
And this hour, we're gonna talk about one of the most significant
features of northern Utah, and of course I'm talking about the Great
Salt Lake and it's a pretty big lake. And if you think -- it is isn'
t it...
LAUGHTER ... well if you think the lake is big now, you know, at 1,
700 square miles, you should have seen it, some of you, 20,000 years
ago.
You weren't around to look at it then.
And the Great Salt Lake then was much bigger ...