Black maps/vivid waters : beauty and horror in David Maisel's The Lake Project and Terminal Mirage

"This paper examines The Lake Project and Terminal Mirage, the two components of David Maisel’s Black Maps series that concern water. Like the section of the Salt Lake chosen by Robert Smithson for his seminal Spiral Jetty, the alkaline waters Maisel photographs are subject to infestations of bacteria that that give them a visceral hue. Smithson provides a reference for this work; the artists are notable for their shared site, disorienting scale, and attraction to entropy"

Neogene through Pleistocene paleoclimate of the Great Salt Lake region, northeastern Great Basin, USA

In a cooperative agreement between Amoco Production Company and the University of Arizona Geosciences Department, extensive data and resources associated with 15 deep wells drilled in the Great Salt Lake are currently on loan at the University of Arizona. Seismic data, electric and lithologic logs, cuttings and previously-prepared pollen slides will eventually permit a thorough study of both the tectonic and climatic history of the Great Salt Lake region. The preliminary study presented here concentrates on the Late Tertiary and Pleistocene climatic reconstruction of the eastern Great Basin through examination of fossil pollen.

The Great Salt Lake trail,

First published in 1898.

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink and colored marker sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 24 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch of Site Plan], untitled. Ink sketch with marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 25 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 22 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch with yellow marker coloring on tracing paper, initialed, 12x24 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches with yellow marker coloring on tracing paper, initialed, 12x25 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches with yellow marker coloring on tracing paper, initialed, 12x23 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch of Site Plan], untitled. Black and red ink and blue marker sketch on tracing paper, 12 x 26 1/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch of Site Plan], untitled. Ink sketch with marker coloring on tracing paper, 12 x 25 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches with marker coloring on tracing paper, 18 x 28 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on tracing paper, 12x24 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Addition, Salt Lake City, 1992-1996

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches with marker coloring on tracing paper, initialed, 12 x 28 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]