Little Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah Photographer: Taylor Boden; © 2015 Lower Red Pine Lake occupies part of a cirque basin below White Baldy (11,321 feet). Pleistocene glaciers carved the Tertiary-age granitic bedrock of the Little Cottonwood Stock into a variety of alpine landforms including cirques, arêtes, and horns.
This warmer weather has our sights on southern Utah red rock day dreams! The Red Mountains and the city of Santa Clara, Washington County, Utah Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan; © 2015
Something beautiful to start the day with. Happy Thursday, everyone! sltrib.com The Internet at large has meticulously documented national park rock formations, sunsets and starscapes in the time-lapse video format. READ MORE
ecprogress.com Lying bones tell no lies and the truth being whispered from a hip bone of a young horned dinosaur found in Utah’s San Rafael Swell is that its origin and age may not be what scientists previously thought. READ MORE
cortezjournal.com High on a red rock ridge in southeastern Utah lies a petroglyph panel that depicts a fundamental shift in the lives of prehistoric Pueblo peoples. READ MORE
Cathedral Valley Overlook, Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County, Utah Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2015 Light-brown sandstone of the Jurassic-age Curtis Formation caps the underlying reddish siltstone of the Entrada Formation in Cathedral Valley. In places, only boulders remain of the resistant cap rock as the Curtis Formation slowly weathers away.
heraldextra.com The Utah Geological Survey recently garnered a 2016 National Award for Excellence from the Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC) Board of Directors in partnership with the Northeast States Emergency Consortium (NESEC), the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), and the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW). READ MORE
stgeorgeutah.com Seven years after its discovery “Joe the Dinosaur” will be making his way across the world to be a part of a year-long international dinosaur exhibit at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Japan. READ MORE
deseretnews.com We Utahns are fortunate to live in a state surrounded by natural splendor with peaks of granite, fertile flat lands and bountiful deserts, but within this natural beauty lurks a natural (but avoidable) killer, radon. Radon is a radioactive gas that is silent, colorless, tasteless, odorless and carcinogenic. READ MORE VIEW MORE information on […]
heraldextra.com The small lichen-riddled boulders dot a Cedar Valley site, crumbling and splitting from age. Depending on the light, you can see the faded drawings on some of the rocks made by the natives so many millennia ago. READ MORE
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