Lone Peak, Salt Lake and Utah Counties, Utah Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan Differential weathering creates unusual patterns on the Little Cottonwood quartz monzonite, Lone Peak, Salt Lake and Utah Counties.
Notch Peak, House Range, Millard County, Utah Photographer: Taylor Boden Notch Peak quartz monzonite near Painter Springs, House Range, Millard County.
Devil’s Playground, Grouse Creek Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah Photographer: Don Clark After a storm, evening light washes over granitic rocks of Devils Playground in the southern Grouse Creek Mountains. The granitic rocks of the Emigrant Pass pluton were emplaced in phases from 41 to 34 million years ago and intrude metamorphosed sedimentary rocks.
The hypothetical family that a group of Highland men allegedly was trying to protect when they destroyed a rock structure was more likely to die on the drive to Goblin Valley State Park than to be crushed by a falling rock. READ MORE
Bryce Canyon National Park, Garfield County, Utah Photographer: Ken Krahulec Wall of Windows, Bryce Canyon National Park,Garfield County.
sltrib.com For paleontologists Randall Irmis and Andrew Milner, the tiny stuff matters, especially when you’re exploring the dawn of big reptiles. Microscopic fossilized pollen, two-inch fishes, even the color of the rock that bones are embedded in say a lot about the landscapes dinosaurs roamed, the climate, what they ate and what their prey ate. […]
foxnews.com A dinosaur skeleton discovered by an eagle-eyed high-school student turns out to be the smallest, youngest and most complete duck-billed dinosaur of its kind ever found. This Cretaceous-era herbivore, Parasaurolophus, walked the Earth some 75 million years ago. The dinosaurs in this genus are best known for their impressive tube-shaped head crests, which may […]
www.mnn.com All it takes is a flash. Lightning strikes the ground, creating temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees. The sand around the lightning strike fuses together, and fulgurite is formed. What are fulgurites? The word – based on the Latin world for thunderbolt – refers to a hollow glass tube formed when lightning strikes soil, […]
Straight Cliffs Formation, Garfield County, Utah Photographer: Jim Kirkland Hoodoos in the Calico sandstone of the Cretaceous-age Straight Cliffs Formation, Garfield County, Utah
Canyonlands National Park, San Juan County, Utah Photographer: Chris DuRoss “Zeus,” a 250-foot sandstone pinnacle, Canyonlands National Park, San Juan County, Utah.
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