🌊 Rush Lake (Tooele County, Utah)

United States · Americas · 1,515 m · 40.44°N, 112.38°W

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Rush Lake is a shallow saline lake in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. It is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, an ancient postglacial inland sea that covered much of the western United States during the Ice Ages. The lake is a natural impoundment of a stream that drains into the Great Salt Lake. Rush Lake varies in size, evaporating at about 2 feet (0.61 m) per year, although occasional floods refill the lake. The average surface elevation is 4,951 feet (1,509 m).

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Quick facts

CountryUnited States
Continent / regionAmericas
Surface elevation1,515 m above sea level
Coordinates (approx.)40.44°N, 112.38°W · view on map

Rush Lake (Tooele County, Utah) sits at 1,515 m in United States, in Americas. The full story of this lake is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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