POTD July 5, 2016: Wilson Health Springs and the Deep Creek Range, Tooele and Juab Counties
Wilson Health Springs and the Deep Creek Range, Tooele and Juab Counties Photographer: Rich Emerson; © 2016
Entries by Utah Geological Survey
Nature’s special effects: Travel in time at the best U.S. dinosaur sites
usatoday.com Fossil hunters have been racing to the American West since the 1800s, and despite important and historic results, the contest to find new dinosaurs hasn’t always been pretty. READ MORE
Bryce Canyon National Park to hold the 10th Annual Geology Festival in July
kcsg.com BRYCE, Utah – Bryce Canyon National Park will hold the 10th Annual Geology Festival July 15-16, 2016. This year’s theme is “Exploring the Eocene Epoch: Dawn of Modern Mammals”, which is the time when the rocks of Bryce Canyon were forming. Join guest speaker, Dr. L. Greer Price of the New Mexico Geological Survey […]
These Are Some of the Weirdest Ways Paleontologists Find Fossils
smithsonianmag.com You can’t find a fossil without breaking a few rocks. In the case of a tiny crocodile called Hoplosuchus, that involved some dynamite. READ MORE
POTD June 6, 2016: Comb Ridge, San Juan County, Utah
Comb Ridge, San Juan County, Utah Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan; © 2016
Here’s What Happened the Day the Dinosaurs Died
news.nationalgeographic.com Imagine sunrise on the last day of the Mesozoic era, 66 million years ago. Shafts of sunlight rake through the swamps and coniferous forests along the coast of what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The blood-warm seas of the Gulf of Mexico teem with life. READ MORE
Paleozoic Shale-Gas Resources of the Colorado Plateau and Eastern Great Basin, Utah: Multiple Frontier Exploration Opportunities
By: Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr. This report (241 pages of text, 187 figures, 30 tables, and 21 appendices) presents the shale-gas potential of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Manning Canyon Shale/Doughnut Formation and the Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation (Chimney Rock, Gothic, and Hovenweep shales) of central and southeastern Utah, respectively. Shale beds within these formations are widespread, thick, buried […]
The Dinosaur Fossil Bubble Has Popped and Natural History Museums Are Pumped
inverse.com Late last month, a nearly complete mounted Stegosaurus skeleton was put up for auction in Germany. The piece was a showstopper, valued at $2.7 million and described as the most complete skeleton of its species ever assembled. And even then, there was more, because the fossils showed battle wounds proving the beast had used […]
POTD June 10, 2016: Gooseberry Mesa, Washington County, Utah
Gooseberry Mesa, Washington County, Utah Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan; © 2016 Sunset on Gooseberry Mesa shines golden light on cliffs of Triassic-age Shinarump Conglomerate and the underlying slope-forming Moenkopi Formation. White cliffs and peaks in the distance are thrones and temples of Zion National Park, formed of Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone.
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