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Energy & Minerals Geologic Hazards Geologic Information & Outreach Geologic Mapping Ground-Water & Paleontology

Energy and Minerals Program

Provides geologic information to aid in the prudent development of the state's mineral and energy resources. Major 2005 projects include:

• assessing mineral resources on School and Trust Lands Administration properties,
• calculating coal resources available for future mining in central Utah coalfields,
• characterizing oil and gas, oil shale, and tar sand deposits in the Uinta Basin,
• modeling reservoirs to enhance oil production in the Paradox Basin,
• investigating gilsonite resources of Utah,
• compiling Utah’s sand and gravel resources,
• preparing an oil-play portfolio for Utah's major oil producing regions,
• assessing saline resources of Sevier and Great Salt Lakes,
• assessing geothermal resources of Utah,
• modeling natural CO2 reservoirs as analogues for reservoirs to store CO2 emissions,
• assessing geographic variation of coal elements for environmental impacts of coal combustion.

Geologic Hazards Program

Helps protect Utah's public health and safety by providing information to reduce losses from geologic hazards. Major 2005 projects include:

• geologic-hazards mapping in Cache Valley, Ogden Valley, and the St. George area,
• assessing and developing consensus on paleoseismic data for Utah’s trenched faults,
• mapping, evaluating, and monitoring landslides in Salt Lake County,
• maintaining Utah and Basin and Range multi-disciplinary earthquake working groups,
• producing guidelines for debris-flow studies,
• mapping the Fayette segment of the Wasatch fault,
• investigating the Sevier fault and the Weber, Nephi, Collinston, and Clarkston Mountain segments of the Wasatch fault,
• mapping the geology of the Layton area for use in evaluating landslide hazards.

Geologic Information and Outreach Program

Provides geologic information and outreach to the public, educators, decision makers, and industry. Major 2005 projects include:

• preparing geologic guides to the Wasatch Front Canyons, and Color Country, Dinosaurland, and Mountainland Travel Regions,
• enhancing UGS website with more maps and geologic information.

Geologic Mapping Program

Maps the geology of the state, which provides the foundation of all geologic studies. Major 2005 projects include mapping the:

• west side of St. George area,
• Capitol Reef National Park,
• southwest Heber Valley and upper Provo Canyon,
• Uinta Mountains, Uinta Basin,
• Wasatch Front urban corridor,
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area,
• Beaver and Piute Counties area.

  Detailed information on Geologic Mapping Program projects (pdf)

  National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program (STATEMAP) (pdf)

Ground-Water & Paleontology Program

Maintains records of Utah's fossil resources, provides paleontological recovery services and evaluates the quantity and quality of Utah's ground-water resources. Major 2005 projects include:

• investigating dinosaur-bearing rocks in part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument;
• studying Utahraptor fauna of central Utah,
• studying lagoonal mollusks and how they may be used to correlate coal bearing strata in Iron County,
• documenting and assessing development of dinosaur track sites in the St. George area,
• preparing pesticide sensitivity and vulnerability maps for basin-fill aquifers in central Virgin River Basin and upper Bear River and Salt Lake Valleys,
• performing ground-water quality studies in Spanish Valley, Grand and San Juan Counties,
• creating digital ground-water flow model for Cedar Valley, Utah County,
• conducting ground-water quantity studies in Curlew Valley, Box Elder County,
• conducting aquifer storage and recovery project at the mouth of Weber Canyon, Davis County,
• assessing hydrogeology of Snake Valley, western Millard County.