Tectonics of the Eastern Great Basin

Tyler Szwarc and Mark Gorenc

The Great Salt Lake Basin

• Bounded by normal faults that reach up down to 5 km into the crust.

• Cenozoic sediments fill the grabens up to 10,000 feet.

• Cenozioc sediments include sandstone, siltstone, conglomerates, tuffs, and salt deposits.

• The GSL is located on top of Cenozoic sediments and above several normal faults.

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Willis 2005

Krygier

Seismic profile across Great Salt Lake

Viveiros 1986