Great Salt Lake’s Earthen Spiral
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When artist Robert Smithson was looking for a location to create his latest earthwork in the late 1960s, he hoped to find a place with red water. He came upon Rozel Point, a remote area in the north arm of Utah’s Great Salt Lake that blooms in pinks and oranges, thanks to an ever-fluctuating community of microbes in the salty waters.
For a more descriptive reasoning of Great Salt Lake’s occasional red coloring, READ MORE HERE.
