stgeorgeutah.com
City officials are anxiously waiting to find out if they will receive a $1.6 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to purchase properties and stabilize a hillside that has destroyed homes and is threatening others.
Hey guys and gals! If you’re in the Salt Lake City area this weekend, consider attending the Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG) Salt Lake Chapter for dessert and drinks at their 27th annual Silent Auction and Scholarship Benefit.
Saturday, March 26th, 2016, 7:30-10PM
Westminster On The Draw, 2120 S 1300 E in Sugarhouse
There is an entrance fee donation of $20, students with ID get in for $10.
All proceeds go towards scholarships and outreach for women in the geosciences!
phenomena.nationalgeographic.com
Just about every two weeks, we meet a new dinosaur species. Some come fresh from the desert. Others have been hiding in museum collections for decades, or were misidentified as different species. However they’re found, though, dinosaurs are stomping out onto the public stage at a greater rate than ever before. Just last week, for example, paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues and colleagues named a new, tiny tyrannosaur that once scampered around prehistoric Uzbekistan. And if the latest estimate is correct, we’re not even close to hitting Peak Dinosaur yet.
Has anyone been lucky enough to visit this museum?
smithsonianmag.com
When visitors go to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, they are not exactly wrong to think that dinosaurs are the stars of the show. This is, after all, the museum that discovered Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and Atlantosaurus, among others.
Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah
Photographer: Marshall Robinson; © 2015
Delicate Arch, a 65-foot-tall natural arch in Arches National Park, Grand County, is composed of Jurassic-age sandstone including the Slick Rock Member of the Entrada Sandstone (base and pedestals) and Moab Member of the Curtis Formation (bridge).
In a land before time…an oasis of life in a now petrified forest.
smithsonianmag.com
Petrified Forest National Park is the kind of place that sneaks up on you. As you cruise at a brisk 80 miles an hour along Highway 40 in Arizona, a sea of sage, rabbitbush and grass stretches from the road’s shoulder to the horizon. This cloaking makes the transformation all the more dramatic once you reach the park. Not far inside the gate, the low scrub opens into the reds, blues and grays of the Painted Desert.
Mark your calendars for April 1, 2016!
ecprogress.com
The Bureau of Land Management Moab Field Office invites the public to the grand opening celebration of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite Trail. This short interpretive trail features over 200 tracks, representing eight different types of tracks and six different dinosaurs. Imagine an ancient lakebed where these animals trudged through a thick gooey mud over 112 million years ago.
ecprogress.com
The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office announces the 2016 season opening of the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry on March 24. The Quarry will be open this spring season Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a $5 per adult fee for admission to the site to help cover a portion of the operating costs. The restrooms, buildings, and path to the covered quarry are wheelchair-accessible.
Looking at Mount St. Helens in hindsight, and trying to assess the unknown danger of a volcano blast.
news.nationalgeographic.com
Government officials had plenty of time to ensure that everyone was safely evacuated from the area around Mount St. Helens, the Washington State volcano that erupted on May 18, 1980. The mountain had been showing signs that it might blow for months before that fatal Sunday. But logging interests, which owned most of the land around the volcano, were at odds with geologists over how big the danger zone should be. And no one anticipated the strength of the eruption, which spewed 540 million tons of ash into the air and killed 57 people. [Find out why Mount St. Helens is still dangerous.]
A ‘mother’ of a dinosaur find—and it looks like this one was eating for two! Scientists believe they have unearthed a pregnant T. rex in Montana. Whoa!
kbzk.com
Through the years of searching for fossils of the ever-popular Tyrannosaurus rex, locating a pregnant one has been understandably difficult.
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