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Hikers rambling through Utah’s candy-striped canyons sometimes come across a strange-looking sight. Where the Navajo Sandstone loses its iconic peach, orange and red stripes, hundreds of round, iron-coated stones often litter the ground.
For all the big noses out there, the biggest nose has just arrived. Read more about the recently discovered dinosaur in Utah and its giant nose. Think the nose always knows? Researchers say similar dinosaurs to this newly discovered dino didn’t have a very good sense of smell. Rather, the large attribute may have been a means to attract a mate, or smash plants. Hows that for multi-functional!
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Look out Jason Schwartzman and Barbara Streisand, there’s a new famous nose on the block — and it belongs to a gentle giant who’s more than 75 million years old — a newly discovered but long extinct species of dinosaur named Rhinorex condrupus.
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Prehistoric life on Earth can seem so strange, with the plants and animals resembling something out of a science-fiction novel about an alien planet.
When I was a child, my family would often go camping in the summers. I would pick up various rocks and ask my dad what they were. “They’re called Leavarite, so you leave em’ right there.” While this is no “Leavarite,” it is something a lightning strike left behind. Most people have never seen it, and those who have may have never realized what it was at the time. This remnant is called a Fulgurite. Fulgurites are natural tubes or crusts of glass formed by the fusion of silica (quartz) sand or rock from a lightning strike. Their shape mimics the path of the lightning bolt as it disperses into the ground.
Read more about fulgurites in our Glad You Asked article HERE!
By: Robert F. Biek, John J. Anderson, Edward G. Sable, and Peter D. Rowley
The Haycock Mountain quadrangle lies in the central part of the Markagunt Plateau in southwest Utah and includes the eastern part of Panguitch Lake, a popular area of summer and winter recreational use. Despite the plateau’s relatively simple structure of a gently east-tilted fault block, the quadrangle contains scenic and instructive exposures of south-west Utah’s youngest basaltic lava flows, classic examples of inverted valleys capped by older lava flows, and the southern margin of the Markagunt Megabreccia, including newly identified, exceptionally instructive exposures of its basil slip surface. The Megabreccia is the debris of Utah’s largest catastrophic landslide deposit, which covers 1300 square miles (3400 km²) of the northern and central Markagunt Plateau.
Check out this bit of information we’ve got up on our website on the North Salt Lake landslide at Parkway Drive!
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You can never be too prepared — that’s the message Lindon City leaders are trying to send to residents.
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Bureau of Land Management workers are removing two dinosaur tracks in Moab to prevent them from being damaged.
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After a week off, the Summit County Council will meet in session on Wednesday, Sept. 17, with the potential for landslides in Summit County one of the issues to be discussed.
Silver Island Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah
Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2013
Chemical weathering produces pits and holes in the surface of Jurassic-age quartz monzonite at Crater Island, in the northeast part of the Basin and Range Province. The “island” of rock rises from the barren, salt-covered plains of the Great Salt Lake Desert east of the distant Pilot Range.
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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