Entries by Utah Geological Survey

Like Our Facebook Page—Win a Calendar!

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 […]

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Grand Staircase book details monument's paleontological wonders

deseretnews.com A 656-page book chronicling the paleontological discoveries and success evidenced so far at Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has been published, even as new discoveries continue to unfold on a near daily basis. “I am here to emphasize that we are just getting started at the Grand Staircase,” said Alan Titus, the monument’s paleontologist. […]

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Grand Staircase Volume Published

The UGS’s Martha Hayden, Don DeBlieux, and Jim Kirkland with their complimentary copies of the volume. Following the 1996 establishment of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM), paleontological research in this largely unstudied region of the nation accelerated at a remarkable pace, thanks to an infusion of research dollars from the federal government. Much of […]

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US seismic array eyes its final frontier

nature.com On Maine’s rugged coast, just north of the tourist town of Boothbay, an underground seismometer is listening for earthquakes. Engineers activated it on 26 September, completing the US$90-million Transportable Array, an ambitious effort to blanket the contiguous United States with a moveable grid of seismic monitors (see ‘On the march’). READ MORE