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Lake Bonneville is one of the major evidences for the fact that climate has changed over the millennia. Lake Bonneville was a pluvial lake that covered an area of approximately 47,800 km² (Laabs et al., 2006). This implies that precipitation rates in the Wasatch mountains was much larger (Laabs et al., 2006), and in fact, it is estimated that the lake formed when precipitation rates were ten times that of modern values (Schofield et al., 2004). An increase in precipitation would most likely indicate that there was a change in climate due in part that Utah is now a very arid region. The evidence of Lake Bonneville is seen by the obvious shoreline features across the Wasatch Range and elsewhere in Utah. In fact, there have been 4 main shoreline elevations of the lake discovered. They are, in order of oldest to youngest, the Stansbury, Bonneville, Provo, and Gilbert. This probably indicates a relationship between climate and lake elevation (Schofield et al., 2004). Other geomorphologic features of the Lake are found in the Point of the Mountain and Fingerpoint spit which give an indication of the lake dynamics (Schofield et al., 2004).