Trilobite, House Range, Millard County, Utah Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg Cambrian-age shales from western Utah’s House Range contain millions of fossilized trilobites, such as this specimen of Elrathia kingi.
Mount Timpanogos, Wasatch Range, Utah County, Utah Photographer: Jason Berry Thousands of years of precipitation, wind, and glacial erosion have sculpted the east face of the Mount Timpanogos massif. The steep cliffs and snow-covered ledges of the Oquirrh Formation exposed on Roberts Horn (10,953 feet) are reminiscent of the Canadian Rockies.
San Rafael Reef, Emery County, Utah Photographer: Tom Chidsey The steeply dipping east flank of the San Rafael Swell is part of a large fold that formed in Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary time.
by Steve D. Bowman and William R. Lund This compilation includes 20 reports pertaining to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-funded National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) paleoseismic investigations conducted between 1978 and 2012, one report that predates the NEHRP program, and 36 annual to semi-annual Summaries of Technical Reports authored by funded NEHRP investigators. These reports […]
deseretnews.com Residents and agencies are racing to fight debris and water flow caused by an unusually wet “monsoon season” in Utah that has caused slides and the threat of slides from Huntington to Alpine and across the Wasatch Front. Salt Lake City averages 0.61 inches of rain in July, according to National Weather Service readings […]
Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Weber County, Utah Photographer: Ken Krahulec Prominent cliffs of gently dipping Mississippian-age Deseret (upper) and Gardison (lower) Limestone are exposed along the walls of Ogden Canyon. These strata are part of a thrust sheet emplaced during the Sevier orogeny, a regional mountain-building event that affected much of western Utah between about 140 […]
Flooding, debris closes section of state Route 31 near Huntington deseretnews.com Rain cause mud flows in Alpine; one house flooded sltrib.com
deseretnews.com For the third time in five years, a Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument employee was honored by having a newly discovered dinosaur named for them. The British scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society announced Wednesday that a new species of horned dinosaur unearthed at the monument is called Nasutoceratops titusi. READ MORE MORE INFO […]
Crystal Geyser, Green River, Grand County, Utah. Photographer: Taylor Boden Colorful travertine (calcium carbonate) is deposited around cold-water, carbon-dioxide-driven Crystal Geyser.
sunews.net Bureau of Land Management has rescheduled the presentation “Microbes, Mars & Moqui Marbles” on Tuesday, July 16. The program is a special Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) Walks and Talks Lecture Series presentation to be held at the BLM Kanab Visitor Center, located at 745 East Hwy 89, in Kanab, Utah. Beginning at 7 […]
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