by Hellmut H. Doelling and Paul A. Kuehne The Short Canyon quadrangle in Emery County, central Utah, has some world-class examples of Utah’s spectacular geology. Driving through the quadrangle on the Moore Road takes you from the Jurassic Carmel Formation through about 100 million years […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
www.livescience.com Two faults bounding Utah’s biggest city may combine to produce especially powerful earthquakes, geologists will report in Salt Lake City today (April 17) at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America. READ MORE MORE INFO
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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