Entries by Utah Geological Survey

POTD July 10, 2013: Wasatch Range, Utah & Wasatch Counties, Utah.

Wasatch Range, Utah & Wasatch Counties, Utah Photographer: Robert F. Biek Framed by blooming gray rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus) above the east shore of Deer Creek Reservoir, Mt. Timpanogos is formed of Pennsylvanian-age, shallow- marine limestone and sandstone of the Oquirrh Formation. The small patch of snow is in Cascade Cirque, one of several glacier-carved basins […]

Granite Mountain Hot Shot Crew Tribute

The Department of Natural Resources, The Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, and The Lone Peak Hot Shot Crew, honor the 19 Fire Fighters of the Granite Mountain Hot Shot Crew from Arizona who gave their lives serving others.

POTD July 8, 2013: Capitol Reef National Park, Garfield County, Utah

Capitol Reef National Park, Garfield County, Utah Photographer: Paul Kuehne The Waterpocket Fold affords a wonderful view of the geology of Grand Gulch. The Entrada Sandstone (reddish-orange rock on the right) and Navajo Sandstone (pale-orange rock on the left and middle distance) were formed in a desert  environment beginning about 185 million years ago in […]

UGS Petroleum Geologists in London

The oldest and most prestigious geological society in the world, The Geological Society (of London), invited Tom Chidsey and Michael Vanden Berg to present papers at a global symposium on a newly discovered major oil potential that occurs all around the world.  Microbial carbonates are a distinctive type of reservoir rock that until recently was […]

Geologists take flight

On April 18, 2013, four geologists from the Hazards Program of the Utah Geological  Survey flew along the Wasatch Front in a Utah Air National Guard Blackhawk helicopter. The flight was part of the Great Utah ShakeOut 2013 earthquake drill, as well as an opportunity to take high-resolution photos  of the fault scarps along the […]