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The Spiral Jetty – Alien Coil on a Dying Salt Lake

There’s something quietly apocalyptic about the Great Salt Lake. It’s shrinking. It smells like brine and decay. And just off the shore, in a remote section of northern Utah, sits a 1,500-foot-long coil of basalt rock spiraling into the lake’s desolate shallows. This is the Spiral Jetty—and it doesn’t belong here. It looks more like …

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