Mark your calendars for April 1, 2016!
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The Bureau of Land Management Moab Field Office invites the public to the grand opening celebration of the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite Trail. This short interpretive trail features over 200 tracks, representing eight different types of tracks and six different dinosaurs. Imagine an ancient lakebed where these animals trudged through a thick gooey mud over 112 million years ago.
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The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office announces the 2016 season opening of the Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry on March 24. The Quarry will be open this spring season Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a $5 per adult fee for admission to the site to help cover a portion of the operating costs. The restrooms, buildings, and path to the covered quarry are wheelchair-accessible.
Looking at Mount St. Helens in hindsight, and trying to assess the unknown danger of a volcano blast.
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Government officials had plenty of time to ensure that everyone was safely evacuated from the area around Mount St. Helens, the Washington State volcano that erupted on May 18, 1980. The mountain had been showing signs that it might blow for months before that fatal Sunday. But logging interests, which owned most of the land around the volcano, were at odds with geologists over how big the danger zone should be. And no one anticipated the strength of the eruption, which spewed 540 million tons of ash into the air and killed 57 people. [Find out why Mount St. Helens is still dangerous.]
A ‘mother’ of a dinosaur find—and it looks like this one was eating for two! Scientists believe they have unearthed a pregnant T. rex in Montana. Whoa!
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Through the years of searching for fossils of the ever-popular Tyrannosaurus rex, locating a pregnant one has been understandably difficult.
The world’s smallest geologist—the butterfly! Just kidding, this little guy is more like scientific evidence, but this new species is offering some new clues to Alaska’s geological history.
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A new species of butterfly could provide clues about Alaska’s geological history and its changing climate, according to a University of Florida researcher.
Check out our latest geologic mapping field review of the Torrey 7.5’ Quadrangle, Wayne County, Utah. The review is open to the public, and will be held April 1, 2016. Find more info HERE.
What are the “house-rules” of the outdoors? We talk a lot about “leave no trace,” but it’s also worth noting that if you find an artifact, fossil, or the like, it’s best to leave it undisturbed as you found it. Following these general rules will help keep Utah beautiful for generations to come!
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You’re hiking in Southern Utah, you sit down to take a break, you look under a nearby ledge and low and behold, there’s an intact seed jar – an artifact probably close to 1000 years old, left behind by the nomadic people who called this area home long before Europeans set foot on the continent. What do you do?
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When artist Robert Smithson was looking for a location to create his latest earthwork in the late 1960s, he hoped to find a place with red water. He came upon Rozel Point, a remote area in the north arm of Utah’s Great Salt Lake that blooms in pinks and oranges, thanks to an ever-fluctuating community of microbes in the salty waters.
For a more descriptive reasoning of Great Salt Lake’s occasional red coloring, READ MORE HERE.
The weekend is here and its looking like southern Utah will be enjoying some wonderful fair weather—take a tour of Utah’s National Parks!
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This multiday adventure on remote byways is a journey through the slickrock heart of the American West, linking Utah’s “Mighty Five” national parks—Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands—with the diverse state parks and nameless vistas of Southern Utah. Each park showcases the iconic landscape of the Colorado Plateau, much of it an ancient Sahara now turned to stone. The surreal tableau of arches, alcoves, hoodoos, and epic canyons is so otherworldly, you may wonder what planet you’re on.
What places in Utah do you love? Check out this little video highlighting one of our favorites—Arches National Park.
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People from around the world come to southern Utah’s Arches National Park to see its iconic imagery that is “always beautiful.”
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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