ksl.com Scientists have discovered evidence of four big earthquakes that rocked the Salt Lake Valley long before pioneers arrived — and they’re not on the well-known Wasatch Fault on the East Bench. Geologists are getting their first good look at the West Valley Fault zone, just west of the Salt Lake International Airport. They’ve wanted […]
The new shopping cart feature allows secure online purchasing of all maps, geologic publications, and recreational books. The easily searchable Web site includes the entire inventory of Utah’s topographic and geologic maps in an easy-to-use index system that shows the location of every map. For those who can’t stop by in person, you can now […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 & […]
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