Looking like snow, the salt crust covering this soil formed when salt-laden groundwater in this salt marsh near the Great Salt Lake in Utah rose by capillarity and evaporated from the soil surface, leaving the dissolved salt behind.
Module 7 : Soil Pollution
Lecture 5 : Water Resources, Irrigation and Wetlands
Looking like snow, the salt crust covering this soil formed when salt-laden groundwater in this salt marsh near the Great Salt Lake in Utah rose by capillarity and evaporated from the soil surface, leaving the dissolved salt behind.