We just love Earth Science Week, as do the students that come participate in our UGS activities. Here is a wonderful write up on Kearns-Saint Ann School Earth Science Week outing at the UGS a few weeks ago.
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The 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-graders from Kearns-Saint Ann School recently took a field trip to the Utah Geological Survey Core Research Center to celebrate Earth Science Week.
Check out the Natural History Museum of Utah’s behind the scenes weekend in pictures. This gallery features an adventure to Great Salt Lake where researchers—including one of our geologists, Tom Chidsey and Michael Vanden Berg—pulled up microbialites for display at the museum.
Utah dinosaurs may be going international with the possibility of a “Dinosaurs of Utah Museum” in Japan.
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It’s enough to make Godzilla proud.
Don’t miss out this weekend! This Saturday and Sunday, November 14–15, the Natural History Museum of Utah will be opening their doors to show what happens behind the scenes. See artifacts, and learn about the museum’s current research, and discover how they care for their collections!
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The PBS series “Nova” tackles 4 billion years of a continent’s history — and Utah is one of the stars.
Great Salt Lake’s North Arm is a little salty, even for Great Salt Lake. The Union Pacific railroad causeway is a factor in the build-up of salt crust in the north arm. The Railroad will be starting a bridge-building project to replace a part of the causeway, mitigating some of the water flow issues. Two of our geologists here at the UGS talk about the salt build up and how it’s affected the North Arm.
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One of the strangest and most striking places in Utah — an enormous oddity that scientists say was created accidentally by human engineering — is getting a bit of a remodeling job.
Anyone feel the small earthquake last night? The micro event occurred about 3 miles outside of Mapleton, Utah.
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The United States Geological Surveys (USGS) reported that a 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit Utah Monday morning.
See the Univeristy of Utah Preliminary Earthquake Report HERE.
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At the northern end of a small but rapidly growing southern Utah community lies a modern ghost town.
The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) is a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Several specialized programs comprise the UGS: Data Management, Energy & Minerals, Geologic Hazards, Geologic Information & Outreach, Geologic Mapping, Groundwater & Wetlands, and Paleontology.
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