Spinners Reservoir, Wasatch Plateau, Sanpete County, Utah Photographer: Greg McDonald Spinners Reservoir in the Muddy Creek drainage basin, Wasatch Plateau, Sanpete County, Utah
By: V. E. Langenheim, N.D. Athens, B.A. Churchel, H. Willis, N.E. Knepprath, J. Rosario, J. Roza, S.M. Kraushaar, and C.L. Hardwick A new isostatic residual gravity map of the Newfoundland Mountains and east of the Wells 30×60 quadrangles of Utah is based on compilation of preexisting data and new data collected by the Utah and […]
A cast of part of the track slab showing several trackways of two different sizes of pterosaurs. A 900 lb. slab of rock with some of the best preserved pterosaur (flying reptile) tracks ever recognized was discovered on State Land in the San Rafael Swell near the town of Ferron by a team from Marietta […]
Twelvemile Canyon, Wasatch Plateau, Sanpete County, Utah. Photographer: Rich Giraud Island Lake at the head of Twelvemile Canyon, Wasatch Plateau, Sanpete County, Utah.
Mirror lake, Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County, Utah Photographer: Ken Krahulec Mirror Lake nestles among 11,000-foot peaks of the western Uinta Mountains. The rocks of the Uintas, consisting largely of sandstone and shale of the Precambrian-age Uinta Mountain Group, contain microscopic bacteria nearly 800 million years old that likely represent Utah’s oldest fossils.
By: Robert F. Biek and Janice M. Hayden The Kanarraville quadrangle includes the southern part of Cedar Valley and parts of the adjacent Kolob Terrace, Harmony Mountains, and North Hills. It straddles a particularly instructive area of structural overlap between the Sevier fold thrust belt-represented by the overturned, east limb of the Kanarra anticline exposed […]
Spring-fed Pruess Lake, Snake Valley, Millard County, Utah. Photographer: Matt Affolter
Middle Springs, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Juab County, Utah Photographer: Matt Affolter
Many of you may already know the Utah Geological Survey has a Facebook page. Well, did you know that you could win a 2014 Calendar of Utah Geology by liking our page? Now you do! We’re giving away one of our gorgeous 2014 calendars to the 2,000th person to like our Facebook page! We appreciate all our […]
nationalparkstraveler.com What did the Colorado Plateau look like 250 million years ago? That’s a question geologists hope to shed some light on via an ambitious project that is pulling rock cores up from as much as 1.5 kilometers down into the plateau’s belly. The Colorado Plateau is an expansive region, taking in parts of Colorado, […]
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