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 […]
Southeast of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg The White Pine rock slide covers the floor of Little Cottonwood Canyon with boulders of granitic rock of the Tertiary-age Little Cottonwood stock. These rocks broke loose from the north side of the glacially-carved canyon several thousand years ago.
North of Moab, Grand County, Utah Photographer: Carole McCalla A 15-inch-long theropod dinosaur track at the Copper Ridge Sauropod Tracksite. This Jurassic-age site includes the first sauropod tracks reported in Utah.
Fishlake National Forest, Piute County, Utah Photographer: Tyler Knudsen Storm clouds gather over Mount Belknap (12,137 feet) in the Tushar Mountains, Utah’s third-highest range. The smooth, rounded slopes of this summit ridge are composed of easily eroded volcanic ash and lava flows. The mountains are part of the eruptive center of the Marysvale volcanic field, […]
Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Box Elder County, Utah. Photographer: Ken Krahulec The 1500-foot-long Spiral Jetty, built in 1970 of black Tertiary-age basalt, is the principal earthwork of the prominent American sculptor Robert Smithson.
San Rafael Swell, Sevier County Photographer: Robert F. Biek Alluvial and wind-blown sediment partly conceals the Jurassic-age Entrada Sandstone in the Last Chance Desert, which occupies the axis of the Last Chance anticline. The narrow, jagged, black ridge at the center of the photo is a basaltic dike of probable late Tertiary age (3 to […]
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Garfield County, Utah Photographer: William Lund The Pink Cliffs (Eocene-age Claron Formation) form the uppermost step of southwestern Utah’s spectacular Grand Staircase.
nationalgeographic.com A little more than a year ago, in the corner of a Salt Lake City tattoo parlor spattered with sci-fi ephemera and fantasy art, I watched as artist Jon McAffee inked an Allosaurus onto my arm. The bloody art was a celebration of a dream […]
fox13now.com A massive rockslide closed part of Dinosaur National Monument. The National Park Service says the slide is still active and rocks have been falling since Tuesday. NPS says that on Tuesday, fishermen reported large boulders falling in the area. Park rangers investigated, but found no further activity. READ MORE OTHER LINKS sltrib.com deseretnews.com MORE […]
The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) is a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Several specialized programs comprise the UGS: Data Management, Energy & Minerals, Geologic Hazards, Geologic Information & Outreach, Geologic Mapping, Groundwater & Wetlands, and Paleontology.
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