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SURVEY NOTES volume 42 number 3

This Issue Contains: Utah’s Glacial Geology Utah’s Pleistocene Fossils: Keys for Assessing Climate and Environmental Change Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them? Survey News Teacher’s Corner: Teaching Kits Available for Loan GeoSights: Glacial Landforms in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons, Salt Lake County, Utah Energy News: Uranium – […]

DISCOVERY OF DINO SKULLS IN GRAND-STAIRCASE WILL HAVE 'HUGE IMPACT'

sltrib.com The skulls of Utah’s prehistoric lizards keep rolling out of the country’s largest national monument with the two newest ones so unusual that when unveiled this week, their discovery will have a global impact. That was the message during last week’s lecture from paleontologist Scott Sampson, author, research curator for the Utah Museum of […]

TIRED OF THE NARROWS? HIKE PARUNUWEAP CANYON

spectrum.com by Tyler Knudsen (of the UGS) The one complaint I have with hiking the infamous Zion Narrows are the multitudes of people you’re forced to share your adventure with. But Zion National Park is a big piece of country, and I’ve discovered that with a little homework you can find less-crowded alternatives to Zion’s […]

CANYONS, PARK CITY DISTRICTS GET FEDERAL FUNDS TO GO GREEN

deseretnews.com Two Utah school districts have received federal stimulus money to make energy-efficient improvements to their buildings, and several more recipients will likely be announced in the weeks and months to come. The grants and loans were awarded through the Utah State Energy Program — a section of the Utah Geological Survey — which allocated […]

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Summary of 2009 Utah Mineral Released

Utah’s mineral extraction industry recorded a successful year on 2009, according to a recently released publication. The Utah Geological Survey’s (UGS) 2009 Summary of Mineral Activity in Utah publication reveals that despite a recession induced dip from peak commodity values in 2008, Utah ranked third nationally in the value of nonfuel minerals produced in 2009, […]

3.8 MAGNITUDE QUAKE FELT IN SOUTH-CENTRAL UTAH

ksl.com Residents in south-central Utah awoke to an earthquake Wednesday morning. The University of Utah seismograph center has downgraded the magnitude of the quake to 3.8. It hit at 6:51 a.m. about nine miles southwest of Cedar City, at a depth of about four miles. The magnitude of the quake was originally said to be […]

UTAH RANKED NO.3 NATIONALLY FOR MINERALS PRODUCTION

deseretnews.com On the same day a group of lawmakers was pressed about the need to increase “mineral literacy” in Utah, a new report showed the state now ranks No. 3 in the nation for the value of non-fuel minerals produced in 2009. Overall, Utah’s contribution was logged at 7 percent of the total value of […]

UTAHNS WARMING TO SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS

sltrib.com nvironmentalists long have dreamed of a time when the massive coal-fired plants that generate much of the nation’s electricity will fall idle, replaced by small, nonpolluting power production on individual homes and businesses. For a slowing growing number of Utahns that dream no longer seems so far-fetched. When Doug Shipley of Intermountain Wind & […]

IRON COUNTY POSTPONES VOTE ON GEOLOGIC ORDINANCE

sltrib.com The Iron County Commission was poised to vote Monday on a geologic hazard ordinance that has been in the making for about six months when Commissioner Lois Bulloch threw a wrench in the works. Bulloch recommended that an independent group review the proposed ordinance and make recommendations. “I’ve heard a lot of consternation over […]