geology.com Red beryl is one of the world’s rarest gemstones. It is found in a few locations in the Thomas Range and the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah, it is also found in the Black Range of New Mexico. The crystals are generally small, often too small to facet. High quality rough that is large […]
Exciting new findings with dinosaur fossils and the organic evidence that remains millions of years later! usustatesman.com A leading paleontologist and USU graduate returned to her alma mater to present some of her important discoveries about dinosaurs on Friday in a speech hosted by the biology, chemistry and geology departments at USU. She detailed the […]
The Cockscomb, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah Photographer: Stevie Emerson; © 2012 The Cockscomb formed along the steeply tilted sedimentary layers of a geologic feature known as the East Kaibab monocline. Faulting and erosion have shaped the tilted Jurassic and Cretaceous-age rocks into the spectacular “rooster’s comb” features seen today along Cottonwood Canyon […]
huffingtonpost.com Earth’s tectonic plates may have taken as long as 1 billion years to form, researchers report today in Nature. READ MORE
Who’s ready to get back out into that beautiful Utah Spring scenery? Scudder Lake, Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County, Utah Photographer: Ken Krahulec; © 2012 Scudder Lake in the glaciated Uinta Mountains, Duchesne County.
Good Monday morning to all of our geo friends! We hope you had a fun and safe weekend. Here’s a read for this morning. Some of you may have questions about what caused Chile’s recent and devastating earthquake. This article tries to answer some of those questions. news.nationalgeographic.com Even planet Earth has its faults. Movement […]
Have a fun weekend, everyone! Skyline Drive, Wasatch Plateau, Sanpete County, Utah Photographer: Rich Emerson; © 2012 At 10,133 feet, winter clings to outcrops of the Tertiary-age Flagstaff Limestone near the crest of the Wasatch Plateau at Snow Lake. The steep, forested slope to the left (east) of the lake is a scarp associated with […]
Here are several more articles about the UGS rockfall investigation, including our own news release with links to the published report. UGS News Release Deseret News article ABC News article
Hello, geo friends! We’re going to try something a little different for “Spot the Rock!” today. Thanks to Google Earth, we’ve got an aerial image for you to ponder. Can anyone guess where this is? UPDATE: Location Revealed Last week’s “Spot the Rock” featured a Google Earth image of the evaporation ponds at the Intrepid […]
kcsg.com Residents living within high rock-fall-hazard zones in Rockville, Utah, face the possible consequences of a large rock fall similar to the fatal event that occurred last December. That is the principle finding of a geologic investigation into the rock fall that killed two people on December 12, 2013. That afternoon, a huge, joint-controlled rock […]
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