books.google.com - Bear Lake is located 100 km northeast of Salt Lake City and lies along the course of the Bear River, the largest river in the Great Basin. The lake, which is one of the oldest extant lakes in North America, occupies a tectonically active half-graben and contains hundreds of meters of Quaternary sediment....http://books.google.com/books/about/Paleoenvironments_of_Bear_Lake_Utah_and.html?id=bO497QhVymIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePaleoenvironments of Bear Lake, Utah and Idaho, and its catchment