Entries by Utah Geological Survey

GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BIRDS NEST AQUIFER, UINTA BASIN, UTAH: ASSESSMENT OF THE AQUIFER’S POTENTIAL AS A SALINE WATER DISPOSAL ZONE

                    by Michael D. Vanden Berg, Danielle R. Lehle, Stephanie M. Carney, and Craig D. Morgan As petroleum production increases in the Uinta Basin, Utah, operators are pressed to establish suitable saline water disposal plans. Several natural gas operators have identified the Birds Nest aquifer in […]

MUSEUM PAINTINGS CAPTURE UTAH'S ROCK FORMATIONS

sltrib.com A new exhibit at the Natural History Museum of Utah uses art to celebrate the state’s geology recorded in ancient dunes and seabeds and the memory of East High School English teacher Cheryl Grubb Funston. On commission from the Funston family, Salt Lake City painter Mark Knudsen created the landscape triptych depicting three famous […]

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SEISMOLOGISTS WARN UTAH IS UNPREPARED FOR THE BIG ONE

sltrib.com Billions of dollars in destruction. Hundreds dead. Such carnage is what seismologists predict will happen when the big earthquake destined to hit Utah strikes. Essentially, the area between the Wasatch and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges is stretching like a rubber band. It will eventually break along a fault line running along the Wasatch foothills […]

EVEN BIGGER EARTHQUAKE POSSIBLE WHEN SALT LAKE'S 'BIG ONE' HITS

sltrib.com       New research suggests a seismic connection ties the Salt Lake portion of the Wasatch Fault with the parallel West Valley fault zone about six miles to the west. The two frame the Salt Lake Valley and a potential, simultaneous rupture could make Salt Lake’s “Big One” a little bigger. Chris DuRoss […]

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HELPING TO FORECAST EARTHQUAKES IN SALT LAKE VALLEY

www.sciencecodex.com Salt Lake Valley, home to the Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone and the West Valley fault zone, has been the site of repeated surface-faulting earthquakes (of about magnitude 6.5 to 7). New research trenches in the area are helping geologists and seismologists untangle how this complex fault system ruptures and […]

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The Utah Geological Survey is announcing a GIS Analyst job opportunity

UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GIS ANALYST (BUSINESS ANALYST) This is a full-time, career service position, located in Salt lake City, Utah.  CLOSES: 5/05/2013 The incumbent in this position is responsible for Geographic Information System (GIS) map and database products for the Utah Geological Survey Geologic Mapping Program. The incumbent will scan, vectorize and prepare GIS databases […]

Exposing the Wasatch Fault – A Source of Large Earthquakes along the Wasatch Front

Video highlighting a recent trench investigation of the Wasatch fault The Wasatch fault is Utah’s longest and most active fault, extending along the Wasatch Front from southern Idaho to central Utah. Although no large earthquakes have ruptured the fault historically, abundant geologic evidence indicates that the fault is capable of generating earthquakes as large as […]

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SALT LAKE TOWN HALL TO EXPLORE SEISMIC RISKS AND READINESS

sltrib.com The Salt Lake segment of the Wasatch fault zone has produced eight large earthquakes in the last 12,000 years. As a whole, this network of faults generates a biggie every 900 to 1,300 years. According to the geological record, the last temblor that exceeded magnitude 6.5, or the kind that can turn unreinforced masonry […]

VIEW AIR PHOTOS COVERING UTAH FROM 1935 TO 2004 ON THE UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WEBSITE

kcsg.com More than 74,000 aerial photographs covering Utah are now available on the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) website. The UGS Aerial Imagery Collection web application allows easy access, viewing, and downloading of aerial photographs. Various federal agencies, the UGS, and other organizations originally acquired these photographs for a variety of agricultural, geologic, and land-use purposes. […]