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The Gilbert Shoreline is the lowest altitude shoreline that can be discerned at the Silver Island Mountains near Wendover

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Shorelines of various ancient lake levels can be seen in White Rock Bay, Antelope Island

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The Stansbury Shoreline enhanced by snow at Buffalo Point, Antelope Island

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The "great bar at Stockton" as described by G. K. Gilbert in 1890. Several beach ridges, spits and bars were deposited here as Lake Bonneville levels rose and fell

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The flat terrace of the Bonneville shoreline has been used for a variety of purposes including housing developments and a hang-glider launch site at The Point of the Mountain

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Many cyclist and hikers enjoy the Bonneville shoreline trail near the University of Utah

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The Bonneville and Provo shoreline deposits have been mined extensively for their aggregate resources at the Brigham City quarry

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A remnant of the Gilbert Shoreline showing the protective cap-rock effect of the shoreline sand and gravel deposits. Note the amount of erosion that has taken place in the last 10,000 years