Utah Geological Survey

2009 UGS EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR

Congratulations to Mike Hylland who was named the 2009 UGS Employee of the Year.  Mike has worked for the UGS for 16 years and does an extraordinary job balancing duties as technical editor and geologic researcher. Mike is quite knowledgeable and professional, and his work ethic and demeanor are exemplary. As a patient, positive, and well-rounded reviewer, he strives for consistency and thoroughness, but is also flexible and willing to look at an author’s particular viewpoint. His ongoing contributions to fault studies in northern Utah and maintenance of the Quaternary fault database are long-lasting. Overall, Mike’s excellent technical skills and great temperament make him the perfect UGS role model.

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PUBLIC INFORMATION SERIES 95

UTAH’S ENERGY LANDSCAPE
Michael D. Vanden Berg

Did you know that Utah is one of only six states that generate electricity from geothermal sources? Did you know that Utah recently produced its one billionth ton of coal? Did you know that Utah has the second lowest price for home-heating natural gas in the nation? Did you know that Utah has been a net-exporter of energy since 1980?

These little known facts, along with many more interesting details, can be found in the Utah Geological Survey’s (UGS) new publication Utah’s Energy Landscape – a visual-based comprehensive description of Utah’s entire energy portfolio.

41p. booklet

PI-95……….$18.95

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Emery County Progress

Utah Geological Survey

OPEN-FILE REPORT 560

GROUND-WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATION FOR THE PRINCIPAL BASIN-FILL AQUIFER, SALT LAKE VALLEY, SALT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH
Janae Wallace and Mike Lowe

This CD contains a report (15 pages + 64-page appendices) and three plates (maps at 1:75,000 scale), all in PDF format, that address ground-water quality in Salt Lake Valley’s basin-fill aquifer and provide recommendations for water-resource management and land-use planning.  The maps are described in detail in the report and show total-dissolved-solids concentration, ground-water quality classes, and potential contaminant sources.

CD (15 p. + 64 p. appendices, 3 pl.)

OFR-560……….$19.95

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Utah Geological Survey

SURVEY NOTES volume 42, number 1

This issue contains:

*Utah Potash
*Major Oil
*The Mercur District
*Survey News
*Teacher’s Corner
*Energy News: Legislative Directives to the Utah State Energy Program 2009
*Glad You Asked:  What are Those Lines on the Mountain? From Bread Lines to Erosion-Control Lines
*GeoSights: Cascade Falls, Kane County
*New Publications

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PAST ISSUES

Utah Geological Survey

REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 265

GROUND-WATER SENSITIVITY AND VULNERABILITY TO PESTICIDES, CURLEW VALLEY, BOX ELDER COUNTY, UTAH
Mike Lowe, Janae Wallace, Stefan Kirby, Rich Emerson, Anne Johnson, and Rich Riding

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that states develop Pesticide Management Plans for four agricultural chemicals—alachlor, atrazine, metolachlor, and simazine—herbicides used in Utah in the production of corn and sorghum, and to control weeds and undesired vegetation (such as along right-of-ways or utility substations).  This 27-page report and two accompanying plates are intended to be used as part of these Pesticide Management Plans to provide local, state, and federal government agencies and agricultural pesticide users with a base of information concerning sensitivity and vulnerability of agricultural pesticides in Curlew Valley, Box Elder County, Utah.

CD (27 p., 2 pl.)

RI-265………$19.95

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MAP 244

GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE PELICAN POINT QUADRANGLE, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH
Barry J. Solomon, Robert F. Biek, and Scott M. Ritter

This quadrangle is located in central Utah within the eastern Basin and Range Province.  The quadrangle includes the northern part of Utah Lake in western Utah Valley, the northern and northeastern lakeshore, and Pelican Point, extending into Utah Lake from the eastern edge of the Lake Mountains.  Bedrock near Pelican Point includes Mississippian-age sedimentary strata on the eastern limb of the Lake Mountains syncline.  The majority of the quadrangle is covered by Utah Lake, which is underlain by normal faults that form the western boundary of Utah Valley.  Surficial deposits along the lakeshore are primarily associated with lacustrine deposition from Holocene Utah Lake and its precursor, late Pleistocene Lake Bonneville.

CD (2 pl., 1:24,000)

M-244……….$14.95

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OPEN-FILE REPORT 558

40Ar/39Ar GEOCHRONOLOGY RESULTS FOR THE FURNER RIDGE AND TINTIC MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLES, UTAH
Utah Geological Survey and Nevada Isotope Geochronology Laboratory

This Open-File Report makes available raw analytical data from laboratory procedures completed to determine the age of rock samples collected during geologic investigations funded or partially supported by the Utah Geological Survey (UGS). Table 1 provides the sample numbers and locations. Table 2 provides the rock names and map units from which the samples were collected; see the map references for additional information such as geologic setting, and significance or interpretation of the samples in the context of the area where they were collected.

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M-243DM

M-243DMSURFICIAL GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE SALT LAKE CITY SEGMENT AND PART OF ADJACENT SEGMENTS OF THE WASATCH FAULT ZONE, DAVIS, SALT LAKE, AND UTAH COUNTIES
(digitized from U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigation Series map I-2106, 1992)
Stephen F. Personius and William E. Scott

This map shows the surficial deposits and the faults that offset them along the Salt Lake City segment and adjacent parts of the Weber and Provo segments of the Wasatch fault zone in north-central Utah.  The map area includes the central and eastern parts of the Salt Lake Valley, including metropolitan Salt Lake City and its southern suburbs.  Although a major surface-faulting earthquake has not occurred on the Wasatch fault zone since the state was settled in 1847, the geologic record contains abundant evidence of large earthquakes during Holocene and late Pleistocene time.  The size, age, and distribution of fault scarps produced by these prehistoric earthquakes can be used to determine the most likely sites for future earthquakes, and are therefore the principal focus of the map.

CD (2 pl., 1:24,000 [contains GIS files])

M-243DM……….$24.95

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RELATED LINK

Salt Lake County Geologic Hazard Maps

Utah Geological Survey

REPORT OF INVESTIGATION 266

RI-266GROUND-WATER SENSITIVITY AND VULNERABILITY TO PESTICIDES, BERYL-ENTERPRISE AREA, IRON WASHINGTON, AND BEAVER COUNTIES, UTAH
Mike Lowe, Janae Wallace, Rich Emerson, Anne Johnson, and Rich Riding

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended that states develop Pesticide Management Plans for four agricultural chemicals—alachlor, atrazine, metolachlor, and simazine—herbicides used in Utah in the production of corn and sorghum, and to control weeds and undesired vegetation (such as along right-of-ways or utility substations). This 28-page report and two accompanying plates are intended to be used as part of these Pesticide Management Plans to provide local, state, and federal government agencies and agricultural pesticide users with a base of information concerning sensitivity and vulnerability of agricultural pesticides in the Beryl-Enterprise area, Iron, Washington, and Beaver Counties, Utah.

CD (28 p., 2 pl.)

RI-266………$19.95

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SPECIAL STUDY 130

ss-130PALEOSEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF THE NORTHERN WEBER SEGMENT OF THE WASATCH FAULT ZONE AT THE RICE CREEK TRENCH SITE, NORTH OGDEN, UTAH
Christopher B. DuRoss, Stephen F. Personius, Anthony J. Crone, Greg N. McDonald, David J. Lidke

This report presents new paleoseismic information for the northern Weber segment of the Wasatch fault zone, collected as part of a joint Utah Geological Survey and U.S. Geological Survey fault-trench investigation at Rice Creek. This research, which was partially funded through the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, expands the record of Weber-segment paleoearthquakes into the early Holocene, provides new timing and displacement data for the most recent earthquake, and helps reduce uncertainties in earthquake timing, recurrence, displacement, and vertical slip rate. These results are important for understanding segmentation of the northern Wasatch fault zone and for improving earthquake-hazard evaluations of the region.

CD (27 p. + 9 p. appendices, 2 pl.)

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