For the third winter in a row, mirabilite formations have sprung up from the sand.
The delicate mounds of white crystal form when spring water underground reacts with minerals and then emerges above the surface in freezing cold air.
“It will crystalize and form these mounds and terraces,” said Angelic Anderson, a park ranger at Great Salt Lake State Park.The fact that they are visible is a product of Utah’s drought. In years with normal precipitation, the area where the formations are located would be covered by water. Now that the Great Salt Lake is experiencing historically low levels of water, the mirabilite formations can emerge above the sand.“We have the lake levels low enough to where these can form,” Anderson said. “They have only been documented in the last three years.”Park rangers are offering informational tours. All openings for the next scheduled date of Feb. 12 have been filled.
“If we get a lot of rainwater and the lake level is high enough, we won’t get these kinds of mounds,” Anderson said. “So, it’s still kind of up in the air on what’s going to happen.”
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