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History of the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Taken from the Utah History Encyclopedia (Links Added). -1-. The Bonneville Salt Flats of the western Great Salt Lake Desert were formed through the evaporation of the Pleistocene-era Lake Bonneville. The salt flats are actually the bed of that once massive lake which rivaled in size present Lake Michigan. The flats are composed mainly of potash salts ranging in thickness from less than one inch to six feet.
The Great Salt Lake is the only remaining element of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which covered most of the current state of Utah during the Pleistocene epoch. The lake is thought to have formed about 32,000 years ago but geologic evidence suggests the area held as many as 28 lakes over 3 million years.