Entries by Utah Geological Survey

REPORT FINDS UTAH SCHOOLS AT RISK IN EARTHQUAKE

necn.com A volunteer panel that assesses earthquake risks in Utah said it examined nearly 130 school buildings in the state and found more than half fail to meet federal earthquake safety guidelines. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Friday that 77 of 128 Utah school buildings examined by the Utah Seismic Safety Commission failed the so-called […]

NEW DINOSAURS DISCOVERED

thefutureofthings.com Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Utah Geological Survey in Salt Lake City discovered and classified the skeletons of two new species of dinosaurs. Dated to the Early Cretaceous Epoch (approximately 145.5 to 99.6 million years ago), both are beaked herbivorous dinosaurs classified as iguanodonts. The two skeletons were found […]

UTAH DNR OPENS ONLINE BOOKSTORE

kpvi.com The Utah Department of Natural Resources has opened an online bookstore to complement its existing store at department headquarters. Customers can now buy topographic and recreational maps at mapstore.utah.gov. Bookstore manager Pat Stokes says many customers have been frustrated by construction on the North Temple viaduct. She says the online bookstore will allow customers […]

Cretaceous Shale-Gas Resources

A new page has been added to the UGS web site. Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Uinta Basin, Utah: Resource Potential and Best Practices for an Emerging Shale-Gas Play Funded by Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America VIEW PAGE

DNR Map & Bookstore Goes Online

Shopping is now easier at the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore. The store, known for its extensive collection of topographic and recreational maps, now provides easy-to-use online shopping for its customers. The Web site is: mapstore.utah.gov. “Our customers who have been frustrated by the construction on the North Temple viaduct and TRAX rail will be […]

SURVEY NOTES volume 43 number 1

This Issue Contains: Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley Updated Landslide Maps of Utah GPS Monitoring of Slow-Moving Landslides Liquefaction in the April 15, 2010, M 4.5 Randolph Earthquake Glad You Asked: What are the Roots of Geobotany? Teacher’s Corner GeoSights: Devils Kitchen, Juab County, Utah Survey News Energy News: Energy Office in […]

IS TAR SAND MINING VIABLE IN UTAH

newwest.net Tar sands development often conjures images of a bleak northeast Alberta landscape, scraped and scalped of its vegetation after being converted to sprawling strip mines from which much of Canadian oil imports to the United States originate. But if a proposal by Alberta-based Earth Energy Resources survives environmentalists’ appeal, eastern Utah’s canyon country could […]

2010 WAS BANNER YEAR FOR DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES

deseretnews.com In Utah’s arid, wind-swept deserts, paleontologists would be shocked to go an entire year without stumbling across the remains of a rock-encrusted dinosaur. Yet naming eight new species in 2010 was beyond their annual optimism. “It’s actually a banner year,” said Mark Loewen, research curator and paleontologist for the Utah Museum of Natural History […]

MIDSIZE QUAKE HITS SOUTHWESTERN UTAH MONDAY MORNING

sltib.com A 4.6 magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Utah early Monday morning. The 5:06 a.m. quake could be felt in the sparsely populated area about eight miles northwest of Circleville and eight miles west of Junction. Several people called the Seismograph Stations at the University of Utah to report they experienced the pre-dawn shaking. No damage […]

LATEST UTAH DINOSAUR BRINGS NUMBER OF NEW SPECIES NAMED IN 2010 TO EIGHT

sltrib.com Had Utah’s newest dinosaur not gone extinct, it might have evolved into a highly intelligent creature, scientists speculate. “Its skull is six times larger than other dinosaurs,” said Scott Foss, regional paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management. But Geminiraptor suarezarum’s large brain case is not its only unique feature. It had an inflatable […]