Pluvial lakes are formed by exorbitant rainfall that coincided with very low evaporation levels. The name itself is taken from the Latin language to indicate the connection with the rain and moisture.

Are the Great lakes pluvial?

All told, evidence of active glaciation has been found in 40 Great Basin ranges with at least as many pluvial lakes. Once widely distributed throughout the Great Basin, only a few of these closed basin lakes remain today.

Is the Great Salt Lake a pluvial lake?

…by a vast proliferation of pluvial lakes in the Great Basin of western North America, notably Lake Bonneville and Lake Lahontan (enormous ancestors of present-day Great Salt Lake and Pyramid Lake).