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Survey
Notes
Read the current issue!
January 2008 (pdf) |
Survey Notes is an informative, non-technical magazine
on noteworthy and interesting geologic topics in Utah. It
is the official UGS newsletter and is produced three times
a year.
Regular columns include Glad You Asked, GeoSights, Teacher's
Corner, Energy News, Survey News and New Publications.
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Current Issue Contents:
- Geologic Mapping in Utah
- Digital Technology
- From Field to Published Map
- News and Short Notes
- GeoSights: Onion Creek salt diapir
- Glad You Asked: What is Magnetic
Declination?
- Energy News: Energy Codes Training
- Teacher’s Corner: The Dome/ Diapir/ Dome
Mountain Dilemma
- Survey News
- New Publications
Recent Issues
September 2007 (pdf)
Volume 39, Number 3
Contents
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Fishing Dinosaurs at Johnson Farm
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New Horned Dinosaurs from Wahweap Formation
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GeoSights: Colorful Coal “Clinker”
Close to Castle Gate,
Carbon County
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Governor’s Hazards Working Group
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Ground-Water Monitoring in Utah’s West Desert
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Energy News: Utah Shale
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Glad You Asked: What are “Potholes”?
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New Publications
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Survey News
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Teacher’s Corner
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May 2007
Volume 39, Number 2
Contents
- Open-Pit Copper Mining
- Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
- Utah Core Research Center
- Tight Gas Reservoirs, Uinta Basin
- Geosights: Celebrate 50 Years of Utah State Parks with 40 Geocaches
- Glad You Asked: I am Thinking of Buying a House at "X"
Address... Is It Near a Fault?
- Energy News: The Status of Wind Energy Development in Utah
- New Publications
- Survey News
- Teacher’s Corner
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January 2007
Volume 39, Number 1 Contents
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Wasatch Fault: Nephi Segment
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Wasatch Fault: End Segments
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Glad You Asked: Great Salt Lake Trivia
Questions
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2006 Landslides
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Energy News: Taking Another Look at
Utah's Tar Sand Resources
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Basin and Range Meeting
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GeoSights: Sand Dunes on the Navajo
Sandstone at Sand Mountain, Washington County, Utah
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Survey News
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Teacher’s Corner
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To receive a free hardcopy of a Survey Notes issue, please
contact the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore at
geostore@utah.gov or 1-888-UTAHMAP to see if one is available.
Survey Notes issues from August 1995 in pdf format.
General geologic articles on a variety of subjects, including
how to stake a mining claim and what is Utah's hydrologic cycle.
Geologic articles on geologic sites in Utah, including Pavant Butte
in the Black Rock Desert and Little Egypt in Garfield County.
Geologic articles written especially for teachers, but interesting
to all, including where to see different rock types along the Wasatch
Front and activities for students on dome mountains and volcanoes.
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