The La Sal Mountains viewed through Mesa Arch in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park, San Juan County, Utah Photographer: Taylor Boden
Mount Magog (9,750 feet) and White Pine Lake, Cache National Forest, Cache County, Utah Photographer: Ken Krahulec
“Prowling Coyote” in Fantasy Canyon, Uintah County, Utah Photographer: Jim Davis
Goosenecks State Park, San Juan County, Utah Photographer: Bill Lund Deeply incised meanders form the goosenecks of the San Juan River at Goosenecks State Park, San Juan County.
theatlantic.com The paleo-tectonic maps of retired geologist Ronald Blakey are mesmerizing and impossible to forget once you’ve seen them. Catalogued on his website Colorado Plateau Geosystems, these maps show the world adrift, its landscapes breaking apart and reconnecting again in entirely new forms, where continents are as temporary as the island chains that regularly smash […]
sltrib.com Until recently, Bob Smith had never witnessed two simultaneous earthquake swarms in his 53 years of monitoring seismic activity in and around the Yellowstone Caldera. Now, Smith, a University of Utah geophysics professor, has seen three swarms at once. READ MORE
Goblin Valley State Park, Emery County, Utah Photographer: Keith Beisner At Goblin Valley State Park on the southeast side of the San Rafael Swell, morning sun gives Wild Horse Butte an ethereal glow. The butte exposes all four geologic units present in the park: the Entrada Sandstone and Curtis, Summerville, and Morrison Formations. These strata […]
Snow Canyon State Park, Washington County, Utah Photographer: Tyler Knudsen About 27,000 years ago, lava flowed on top of the Navajo Sandstone, forming black “ropey” basalt in Snow Canyon State Park, Washington County. Utah is peppered with volcanoes and other signs of the hot molten rock (magma) that forms within the crust beneath us. Magma, […]
By: Janice M. Hayden The Yellowjacket Canyon 7.5′ quadrangle is divided north-south by the Sevier fault zone with the lower Navajo Sandstone and older rocks creating the Vermilion Cliffs step of the Grand Staircase on the up-thrown block to the east, and the upper Navajo Sandstone and younger rocks creating the White Cliffs step of […]
St. George basin, Washington County, Utah Photographer: Robert F. Biek Beyond the 350,000-year-old (Pleistocene-aged) Sullivans Knoll (Volcano Mountain) cinder cone near the town of Hurricane, the snow-covered Pine Valley Mountains are the eroded remnants of one of the world’s largest laccoliths, a shallow, mushroom-shaped igneous intrusion that formed about 20 million years ago. The red, […]
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