Did everyone have a great weekend? Maybe some of you got out into Utah’s National Parks. Canyonlands National Park is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Check out this article showing an aerial photo from space of the park’s grabens that run along the Colorado River, along with other geological highlights.
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Parallel valleys called grabens stand out in a new satellite image of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
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While on a walk with his wife near Utah’s Indian Creek last fall, Barry Baker discovered a 13-foot juniper hovering like a ghost, embedded in a towering cutbank several feet above a creek bed.
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Utah is home to five national parks — Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef and Bryce Canyon. How well can you pick out the geological features and what makes each park famous?
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A Logan man is concerned about the stability of the hillside above his home after a significant weekend mudslide exposed the foundation of a fourplex above on 600 East and filled in the stream through his yard.
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Efforts to explain what GIS actually is almost invariably wax philosophical. At its most essential, GIS is a system for marrying data sets with geography. But it can better be understood as the product of a specific historic moment whose fruit is just coming to bear – a moment arising from the spontaneous amalgam of diverse technologies reaching their apparent apotheosis. And it began when a young Roger Tomlinson—and others—wanted to geographically assess more information than ever before. While the rise of digital culture has served to erode countless boundaries in traditional disciplines, that corrosion partially began in an airplane in 1962 with the predicament of getting gobs of information into one little map.
A wonderful opportunity! Check it out.
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The unique landscape of Southern Utah offers endless opportunities for depiction as well as discussion, and its geological formations have provided countless artists with creative inspiration. For its summer 2014 art hike, the Southern Utah Museum of Art Community Engagement Committee merges science with art for a trek entitled “Lacoliths, Sand Dunes, and Silver: Exciting Regional Geology Around Yant Flat,” led by expedition scientist Andy McCrea and photographer Steve Yates.
Waterpocket Fold, Capitol Reef National Park, Garfield County, Utah
Photographer: Adam Hiscock; © 2013
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The Idaho Geological Survey, based at the University of Idaho, is excited to be part of the National Geothermal Data System, which formally launched April 30 and was announced nationwide Friday.
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The Bureau of Land Management-Utah Henry Mountain Field Station is partnering with the Burpee Museum of Rockford, Illinois, to conduct free guided tours at the Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry. Daily tours for the public began May 29 and continue through June 7. No tours will be offered on Sunday, June 1.
The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) is a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Several specialized programs comprise the UGS: Data Management, Energy & Minerals, Geologic Hazards, Geologic Information & Outreach, Geologic Mapping, Groundwater & Wetlands, and Paleontology.
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