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    • Survey Notes
      • The Significance of Great Salt Lake’s North Arm on Lake Salinity
      • Utah’s Emerging Northern Paradox Basin Unconventional Oil Play
      • Groundwater Monitoring Well Installation at Sevenmile Canyon Near Arches National Park
      • The Role of Water Quality and Quantity on Future Development Near Bryce Canyon National Park
      • STATEMAP Just Got a Lot Bigger
      • Utah’s Great Unconformity
      • The New Utah Aerial Imagery Database: A Statewide Resource of Historical Aerial and Related Imagery
      • Incorporating Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) Technology in Geologic Hazard Characterization and Emergency Response: Zion National Park
      • Paleo News: New Discoveries of Morrison Formation Plant Fossils Expand Our Knowledge of Jurassic Ecosystems
      • Coal for High Technology
      • Assessing Geologic Carbon Sequestration Opportunities in Utah
      • Groundwater & Wetland News: IN-LIEU FEE WETLAND MITIGATION: A Boring Name For an Exciting Idea
      • Digging Up Evidence of Past Earthquakes in Salt Lake Valley
      • Mapping Geologic Hazards in and Near Bryce Canyon National Park
      • Hazard News: An Update on Utah’s Very Active Spring 2023 Landslide Season
      • The Development of Field Spectroscopy for Minerals Exploration: Utah, Fieldwork, and Family
      • Geologic Diagnostic: An “MRI” for the Earth
      • Mapping News: The Future of Geologic Mapping in Utah, New Tools and Techniques
      • Where is the Wildlife? Improving Key Aquatic Habitats in the Updated Utah Wildlife Action Plan
      • Climatically Controlled Water Supply in the Bryce Canyon Region?
      • UGS Employee Retrospective
      • The Legacy of Hellmut H. Doelling, Utah’s Geology Giant
      • The UGS Program Evolution
      • A Brief History of the UGS
      • Paleo News: UGS Paleontologists Find a Bonanza of Fossil Footprints in Canyonlands National Park
      • Beneath Utah’s Surface: Harnessing Geologic Carbon Storage for a Sustainable Future
      • Rock Glaciers: Reminders of a Glacial Past and Dynamic Landforms in a Warming Future
      • Update on Utah’s Earthquake Early Warning Efforts
      • Utah–The Geoheritage State
      • Resurging Interest in Utah’s Geothermal Energy Resources
      • Mapping and Modeling Phragmites at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge
      • Tracking Utah’s Ground Motion From Space Using InSAR: A New Tool at Hand
      • Paleo News: Utahraptor State Park–Preserving Dinosaur and Human History
      • A Race Against Time: St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site Unearths Over One Thousand Fossils in Historic Salvage Effort
      • The Hydrogeology and Ecology of the Matheson Wetlands Preserve: A Connected Story
      • Hazard News: A Clearer View of Earthquake Risk: New Maps Reveal Central Utah’s Active Faults
      • Historic Mining Districts: A Gateway to Future Critical Mineral Potential
      • Return on Investment in the Utah Geological Survey
      • Pozzolan – Ancient Technology, Future Resource
      • New Energy & Minerals Interactive Web Applications
      • How Green Lasers are Illuminating the Underwater Secrets of Great Salt Lake
      • Hazard News-Putting Down Roots in Utah’s Earthquake Country Second Edition Provides Updated and New Information
      • New, Novel, and Updated! Wetland Mapping Improves Across Utah
      • The Utah Flux Network
      • Great Salt Lake’s Gunnison and Cub Islands Come into Focus
      • The Utah Geological Survey and the National Park Service
      • Director’s Perspective Sept. 2010
      • The Curious Spring Creek Road Landslide
      • Investigating Earthquake Hazard on the Southern Wasatch Fault Zone
      • New Core, New Insights into Ancient Lake Uinta Evolution and Uinta Basin Energy Resources
      • Drones for Good: Utah Geologists Take to the Skies
      • Utah Mining Districts at Your Fingertips
      • Major John Wesley Powell: 1834–1902
      • Powell’s 1869 Journey Down the Green and Colorado Rivers
      • Is There a Wetland on Your Property? Identification and Next Steps
      • An In-depth Look at Ogden Valley’s Groundwater
      • The Uinta-Tooele structural zone–what’s in a name?
      • Utah’s Ancient Mega-Landslides
      • The UGS Response to the March 18, 2020, Magnitude 5.7 Magna, Utah, Earthquake and Aftershock Sequence
      • Mysteries of the Uinta Mountains
      • Ancient Volcanoes of the Central Wasatch Range
      • Utah’s Early Cretaceous Fossils Provide Critical data on the opening of the Atlantic Ocean
      • GeoSights
        • GeoSights: San Juan River Rincon, San Juan County
        • GeoSights: Hole-in-the-Ground, Snake Valley, Millard County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Pine Park and the Ancient Supervolcanoes of Southwestern Utah
        • GeoSights: Park City Sunrise Rotary Regional Geologic Park, Summit County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Crystal Peak, Millard County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Wind Cave, Logan, Utah
        • Geosights: White Rocks Tooele County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Raplee Ridge, San Juan County, Utah
        • Geosights: Cannonball Concretions in a Treeless “Buried Forest,” Carbon County, Utah
        • GeoSights: The Henry Mountains
        • GeoSights: Microbialites of Bridger Bay, Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake
        • GeoSights: Big and Little Brush Creek “Ice” Caves, Uintah County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Springhill Geologic Park, Davis County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Palisade State Park in Sanpete County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Ricks Spring, Cache County
        • GeoSights, Anniversary Edition
        • GeoSights: Handprints in the Entrada Sandstone at Kodachrome Basin State Park, Kane County
        • GeoSights: Slot Canyons of the San Rafael Swell, Emery County
        • GeoSights: Desert Mountain, Juab County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Tony Grove, Cache County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Bentonite Hills
        • GeoSights: Silver Reef, Washington County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Trek to Fremont Island (Disappointment Island)
        • GeoSights: Fossil Mountain, Millard County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Natural Arches in the Cedar City Area, Iron County
        • GeoSights: The Stockton Bar, a Geologic Treasure in Tooele County
        • GeoSights: Paul Bunyan’s Woodpile, Juab County
        • GeoSights: Sinkholes in Big Round Valley, Washington County
        • GeoSights: Pahvant Butte Black Rock Desert, Millard County
        • GeoSights: Little Egypt Geologic Site: Hoodoos of Garfield County
        • GeoSights: Inverted Topography in the St. George Area, Washington County
        • GeoSights: The Return of Spiral Jetty! Box Elder County
        • GeoSights: Devils Slide, Morgan County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Big Rock Candy Mountain, Utah’s volcanic past, Piute County
        • GeoSights: The Midway Hot Pots – natural hot springs, Wasatch County
        • GeoSights: Sand Dunes at Little Sahara Recreation Area, Juab County
        • GeoSights: Fisher Towers, towering red rock sculptures of Grand County
        • GeoSights: Lower Cathedral Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Wayne County
        • GeoSights: Thistle Landslide Revisited, Utah County
        • GeoSights: “Bubblin’ Crude” at Rozel Point, Box Elder County
        • GeoSights: Devils Playground, Box Elder County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Rozel Point, Spiral Jetty Revisited, Box Elder County
        • GeoSights: Spectacular Towering Cliffs at Castle Rock Campground, Sevier County
        • GeoSights: Sand Dunes on the Navajo Sandstone at Sand Mountain, Washington County
        • GeoSights: Colorful Coal “Clinker” Close to Castle Gate, Carbon County
        • GeoSights: Onion Creek salt diapir, Grand County
        • GeoSights: G.K. Gilbert Geologic View Park, Salt Lake County
        • GeoSights: Cascade Springs, Wasatch County
        • GeoSights: Fantasy Canyon, Uintah County
        • GeoSights: Wall Arch, a Fallen Giant, Grand County
        • GeoSights: Utah’s belly button, Upheaval Dome, San Juan County
        • GeoSights: Cascade Falls, Kane County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Fremont Indian State Park, Sevier County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Glacial Landforms in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons, Salt Lake County
        • GeoSights: Devils Kitchen, Juab County, Utah
        • GeoSights: The Witches Near Echo, Summit County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Little Grand Canyon, Wedge Overlook, and Buckhorn Draw Scenic Backway, San Rafael Swell, Emery County
        • GeoSights: Gandy Warm Springs, Northwestern Millard County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Notch Peak—BIG Cliff, Millard County
        • GeoSights: The Goosenecks of the San Juan River, San Juan County
        • GeoSights: The Honeycombs, Juab County
        • GeoSights: Comb Ridge, San Juan County
        • GeoSights: Bonneville Salt Flats, Tooele County
        • GeoSights: St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson’s Farm, Washington County
        • GeoSights: Volcanic Features in the Black Rock Desert, Millard County
        • GeoSights: Point of the Mountain, Salt Lake and Utah Counties
        • GeoSights: Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake County
        • GeoSights: The Cockscomb and Kaibab Uplift of Southern Utah
        • GeoSights: A View of the World’s Deepest Pit – Bingham Canyon Mine Overlook
        • GeoSights: Wolverine Petrified Forest, Garfield County
        • GeoSights: Crystal Geyser, Grand County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Parowan Gap, Iron County
        • GeoSights: Alhambra Rock, San Juan County, Utah
        • GeoSights: Roosevelt Hot Springs Geothermal Area, Beaver County
        • GeoSights: Sheep Creek Canyon Geological Area, Daggett County
        • GeoSights: Marvelous Moore Cutoff, Emery County
        • GeoSights: Smoky Mountain, Kane County
      • Glad You Asked
        • Glad You Asked: What Gives Utah’s “Red Rock Country” its Color?
        • Glad You Asked – How does Plate Tectonics make for Great Skiing?
        • Glad You Asked: Does the UGS Library House Any Remarkable Rare Books?
        • Glad You Asked: Where is Shaw Arch?
        • Glad You Asked: What Movies Feature Utah Geology?
        • Glad You Asked: What is Utah’s Largest Meteorite?
        • Glad You Asked: What do landslides, glaciers, and faults have to do with the lakes on the Wasatch Plateau?
        • Glad You Asked: Cinder Cones of Southwest Utah: What Exactly Are They and How Did They Get There?
        • Glad You Asked: Where Does Utah’s King’s Peak Rank on the List of U.S. State Highpoints?
        • Glad You Asked: Can U.S. Interstate Highway 15 Be Used as a Metaphor for Geologic Time
        • Glad You Asked: What is the Salt Lake Base and Meridian?
        • Glad You Asked: What is the Story Behind Lake Powell’s Rocks?
        • Glad You Asked: What’s With All This Dust?
        • Glad You Asked: How is the UGS Helping Manage Invasive Phragmites?
        • Glad You Asked: What Movies Feature Utah Geology? Part 2
        • Glad You Asked: What are the Oldest Rocks in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: What is a Dropstone?
        • Glad You Asked: Why Are Natural Resources, Such As Coal, Found In Some Places, But Not In Others
        • Glad You Asked: What Are Ice Caves?
        • Glad You Asked: What Are Those Blue Ponds Near Moab?
        • The Curious Case of the Green River in the Uinta Mountains
        • Glad You Asked: Needing a Great Resource for Teaching Your Students About Utah Fossils?
        • Glad You Asked: What were those strange white mounds along the shores of Great Salt Lake?
        • Glad You Asked: How Do Geologists Know How Old a Rock Is?
        • Glad You Asked: Igneous, Sedimentary, & Metamorphic Rocks
        • Glad You Asked: Colloidal Minerals
        • Glad You Asked: Who To Call for Geologic-Hazard Problems?
        • Glad You Asked: Do I have to travel all the way to Yellowstone, or can I see beautiful hot springs here in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: Utah’s Hydrologic Cycle
        • Trilobites and Cambrian Utah
        • Utah’s State Symbols
        • Map Scale, Township & Range Explained
        • Glad You Asked: What Is a Formation?
        • Glad You Asked: Where can I collect landscaping rock on public land?
          • Losee Canyon
          • Antelope Mountain
          • Basin Creek
          • Bear Valley
          • Bitter Seeps
          • Buck Canyon
          • Capitol Reef
          • Honeycombs
          • Lakeview Reservoir
          • Lava Ridge
          • Marjum Pass
          • Muskrat Station
          • Red Wash
          • Rosebud
          • Rush Lake
          • San Rafael River
          • School Bus Corral
          • Shinarump
          • Smelter Knolls
          • South Hurricane
          • Stansbury Island
          • Sulpherdale
          • The Cinders
          • Virgin
          • West Mountain
          • West Wrinkles
          • Wheeler
        • Glad You Asked: Wasatch Front Sand & Gravel
        • Glad You Asked: How was Utah’s topography formed?
        • Glad You Asked: How can I stake a mining claim?
        • Glad You Asked: Why does the eastern border of Utah have a kink in it?
        • Glad You Asked: What are those crunchy crusts found on some Utah soils?
        • Glad You Asked: What Are Minerals Used For?
        • Glad You Asked: What gemstone is found in Utah that is rarer than diamond and more valuable than gold?
        • Glad You Asked: Are there glaciers in Utah’s mountains?
        • Glad You Asked: How Do Geologists Identify Minerals?
        • Glad You Asked: What Causes the Foam on Great Salt Lake?
        • Glad You Asked: What Kind of Rock Makes a Good Wall?
        • Glad You Asked: Have meteorites or meteorite craters been found in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: What are seismic surveys?
        • Glad You Asked: What are fulgurites and where can they be found?
        • Glad You Asked: What is Utah’s State Soil?
        • Glad You Asked: What Mountain Range Honours Prominent Geoscientists?
        • Glad You Asked: Field Specimens vs. Museum Specimens
        • Glad You Asked: Great Salt Lake Trivia Questions
        • Glad You Asked: I’m Buying a House … Is It Near a Fault?
        • Glad You Asked: What are “Potholes”?
        • Glad You Asked: What is Magnetic Declination?
        • Glad You Asked: So you think you have found a meteorite!
        • Glad You Asked: Glacial Striations and Slickensides
        • Glad You Asked: Why Does A River Run Through It?
        • Glad You Asked: What should you do if you find a fossil?
        • Glad You Asked: What are Those Lines on the Mountain? From Bread Lines to Erosion-Control Lines
        • Glad You Asked: How many islands are in Great Salt Lake?
        • Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them?
        • Glad You Asked: What are the Roots of Geobotany?
        • Glad You Asked: What is the Correct Name of …?
        • Glad You Asked: How Can I Name a Mountain?
        • Glad You Asked: Is there winter scuba diving in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: Can Rockfalls Cause Wildfires?
        • Glad You Asked: Where is the Coolest Spot in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: Is There Coral in Great Salt Lake?
        • Glad You Asked: Are those animal tracks in the sidewalk?
        • Glad You Asked: Sizing Up Titans-Navajo Erg vs. Sahara Ergs; Which was the larger sand box?
        • Glad You Asked: How can sedimentary rocks tell you about Utah’s history?
        • Glad You Asked: What is the Boxcar Seawall?
        • Glad You Asked: Why are there Utah names on Mars?
        • Glad You Asked: What is an Earthquake Early Warning System, and Does Utah Have One?
        • Glad You Asked: Why Are There So Many Natural Arches in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: Is Utah’s State Rock Good, Bad, or Ugly?
        • Glad You Asked: What is Geovandalism?
        • Glad You Asked: What geologic hazards should I be aware of as a homeowner in Utah?
        • Glad You Asked: You have a bookstore? In the digital age?
        • Glad You Asked: Do Ants Mine Gold?
        • Glad You Asked: What are Moqui marbles?
        • Glad You Asked: What is an Unconformity?
        • Glad You Asked: Landslide Evaluation Issues – Examples From Timber Lakes Estates
        • Glad You Asked: Does Utah Really Use More Water Than Any Other State?
        • Glad You Asked: What are keeper potholes & how are they formed?
      • Energy News
        • Energy News: Uranium – Fuel for the 21st Century?
        • Energy News: Utah Hosts Petroleum Geology Convention
        • Energy News: Are Ownership and Production Patterns of Utah Petroleum Resources Related?
        • Energy News: Liquid-rich Shale Potential of the Uinta and Paradox Basins
        • Energy News: New UGS study to determine what best to do with water produced from gas fields in the Uinta Basin
        • Energy News: Utah’s Gordon Creek Field to Test Commercial-Scale Storage of Carbon Dioxide
        • Energy News: Hydraulic fracturing and shale gas
        • Energy News: A Longer Term View of the Results of U.S. Energy Policy
        • Energy News: UGS Set to Publish Major Study on Potential Paleozoic Shale-Gas Resources
        • Energy News: Natural Buttes Field – Utah’s “Tight” Sandstone Gas Warehouse
        • Energy News: UGS Explores for New Geothermal Resources in Utah
        • Energy News: Legislative Directives to the Utah State Energy Program 2009
        • Energy News: Saline Water Disposal in the Uinta Basin, Utah — Protecting fresh water while allowing for increased hydrocarbon production
        • Energy News: Evaluating Utah’s Oil Shale Resource
        • Energy News: Utah’s Renewable Energy Zone Assessment
        • Energy News: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Demonstration Project Underway in Utah!
        • Energy News: Energy Codes Training
        • Energy News: A New Uranium Boom?
        • Energy News: Geothermal Energy Development in Utah
        • Energy News: Taking Another Look at Utah’s Tar Sand Resources
        • Energy News: The Status of Wind Energy Development in Utah
        • Energy News: Does Your Shale Have Gas? Utah Shales Do!
        • Energy News: Geothermal Development in Utah – New Incentives and New Projects
        • Energy News: Increased oil and gas drilling in Utah starting to produce dividends
        • Energy News: Utah’s Anemometer Loan Program – SVNT article
        • Energy News: “Elephant” Discovered in Central Utah?
        • Energy News: UGS Awarded DOE Grant
        • Energy News: Storing Carbon Dioxide Emissions Underground — New Projects
        • Energy News: Rules limiting mercury emissions
        • Energy News: Salt Lake City to Again Host the AAPG Annual Convention in 2003
        • Energy News: Natural Gas Development Continues to Expand in Utah
        • Energy News: UGS Awarded DOE Grant
        • Energy News: The growing importance of coalbed gas in Utah
        • Energy News: Utah’s Petroleum Industry Posts Banner Year in 2001
        • Energy News: The Unsung Hero of Energy Conservation in Utah
        • Energy News: The Benefits of Oil and Gas Production to the State of Utah and Its Citizens—How Things Work!
        • Energy News: Covenant Oil Field in the Central Utah thrust Belt Turns 15 Years Old
        • Energy News: Increased battery demand spurs interest in Utah’s metallic resources
        • Energy News: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Utah’s Energy Industry
        • Energy News: Geothermal in Utah and the USA: Is a Sleeping Energy Giant Awakening?
        • Energy News: Critical Minerals: Reshaping the Minerals Industry
        • Energy News: Utah Returns to Being a Net Energy Importer
        • Energy News: Potential Impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act on Carbon Capture and Storage in Utah
        • Energy News: Development of New Markets for Uinta Basin Crude via Rail
        • Energy News: Updated Map Shows Utah’s Many Oil and Gas Fields
        • Energy News: Some Impacts of Low Oil Prices on Utah
        • Energy News: Not All Megawatts Are Created Equal – An Examination of Electric Generation Capacity Factor
        • Energy News: A Partner in the CarbonSAFE Rocky Mountains Project
      • Core Center News
        • Core Center News: Why a Building Full of Rocks is so Important to Utah
        • Core Center News: Mining Core at the UCRC— Boosting Utah’s Metal Exploration
        • Core Center News: Massive Core Donations Spurred by Low Oil Prices
        • Core Center News: Cores from Central Utah’s Covenant Field – Oil-Bearing Ancient Sand Dunes
        • Core Center News: Greater Aneth Oil Field: A Trip Back in Time to Utah’s “Bahama Islands” and “Florida Keys”
        • Core Center News: UCRC Receives a Treasure Trove Donation of Greater Aneth Oil Field Cores
        • Core Center News: Core Like Never Before: An Unprecedented 1600-foot Core from the Green River Formation in the Uinta Basin
        • Core Center News: Ferron Sandstone Cores, Excellent Teaching Tools to Spark the Imagination!
        • Core Center News: Skyline 16 Green River Formation Core – World Class Lacustrine Teaching Tool
      • Teacher’s Corner
        • Teacher’s Corner: Reading a Stone Wall
        • Teacher’s Corner: Dome Mountains
        • Teacher’s Corner: Volcanoes
        • Teacher’s Corner: Accessible Examples of Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Rocks
        • Teacher’s Corner: Geologic Stretching
        • Teacher’s Corner: The Earth’s Surface is Constantly Changing
        • Teacher’s Corner: Create a Settling Container
        • Teacher’s Corner: Groundwater
        • Teacher’s Corner: Igneous and Metamorphic Geology of Utah
        • Teacher’s Corner: The Dome/Diapir/Dome Mountain Dilemma
        • Teacher’s Corner: Earthquakes – Wasatch Fault
        • Teacher’s Corner: The Great Energy Debate
        • Teacher’s Corner: Earth Science Week 2014
      • Fatal Big Cottonwood Canyon Rock Fall Prompts UGS Emergency Response
      • Massive Erosion Near Vernal
      • History of Potash Production from the Salduro Salt Marsh (Bonneville Salt Flats), Tooele County
      • Discovering Early American Lifestyles on Dugway Proving Grounds
      • Historical Events Related to the Geology of Utah
      • “Bad Bones, Bad Way”
      • Utah’s Stone Building Heritage
      • Rock Dating
      • Utah’s Wildlife in the Ice Age
      • Knowledge of Utah Thrust System Pushes Forward
      • New Utah Minerals: Utahite, Juabite, and Blatonite
      • Frankhawthorneite, Jensenite, and Leisingite
      • Mcalpineite
      • Cannonite, Fangite, Gillulyite, and Tooeleite
      • Renaissance in Oil Shale Leasing on State Lands
      • Large Boulder Damages Rockville Home
      • Too Many Wells — or Too Few
      • A Lake Divided – A History of the SPRR Causeway and Its Effects
      • San Rafael Swell proposed as new national monument
      • Landslide damaged six Layton homes
      • Cache Valley sensitivity and vulnerabilty to pesticides
      • Discovery of a New Pterosaur Tracksite at Flaming Gorge Reservoir
      • New Utah Minerals: Juanitaite & Dickthomssenite
      • The St. George Dinosaur Tracksite
      • Massive Gravity Slides Show the Value of Detailed Mapping
      • Triggered Seismicity in Utah from the Denali Fault Earthquake
      • New Utah Minerals: Orthominasragrite & Oswaldpeetersite
      • Fire-Related Debris Flows Damage Houses
      • What About Great Salt Lake?
      • Debris Flows in Utah – New Guidelines
      • Maps Show Potential Geologic Effects of a Magnitude 7 Earthquake
      • Coalbed-Gas Exploration in Utah
      • Leamington Cement Plant
      • Blue-Green Algae: It’s Not Just Pond Scum
      • An Up Close and Personal View of Cherokee Oil Field
      • Petroleum Geologist Convention a Big Success
      • Storing Carbon Dioxide Beneath the Colorado Plateau
      • Wolverine Petrified Forest
      • New Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project, Ogden Area
      • UGS Receives Record STATEMAP Geologic Mapping Grant
      • UGS Publishes The Geology of Millard County, Utah
      • Dr. Lehi Hintze, Geologist Extraordinaire
      • New Guidelines for Evaluating Surface-Fault-Rupture Hazards in Utah
      • The Mapleton Megatrench
      • Improving Our Understanding of Earthquake Hazards in Utah
      • New Utah Minerals: Bobjonesite & Anorthominasragrite
      • New Oil and Gas Fields Map of Utah
      • Turn up the thermostat and turn on the shower
      • Gilsonite – An Unusual Utah Resource
      • Deep Utah coal deposits – repositories for greenhouse gas emissions?
      • Pilot Project Shows Promise for Aquifer Storage and Recovery
      • Inventory and Management of Utah’s Fossil Resources
      • Utah’s Newly Recognized Dinosaur Record
      • Utah’s Oldest Fossils are found in the Uinta Mountains
      • The Traverse Mountains: New Geologic Maps and Explosive Suburban Growth
      • State Energy Program
      • Earth Fissures in Escalante Valley
      • Landslides Keep Hazards Program Busy In 2005
      • Protecting Utah Homes From Geologic Hazards
      • Utah Key Player in Future Oil Shale Development
      • Utah’s Limestone
      • Funding Encourages a Wide Spectrum of Research
      • Lisbon Valley Copper Project
      • New Utah Minerals: Holfertite & Nukundamite
      • New Discoveries of Fossil Mammals
      • New Borehole-Geophysical Logging Program
      • Tooele Valley Wetlands
      • Proposed Ground-water Withdrawal in Snake Valley
      • Glad You Asked: Stump a Geologist.
      • New Age for the Santa Clara (Snow Canyon State Park) Basalt Flow
      • St. George 30’x60’ Quadrangle: A New Regional-Scale Geologic Map of Southwest Utah
      • Granite Peak Mountain: A Geologic Mystery Revealed
      • Basin and Range Meeting
      • 2006 Landslides
      • How active are the end segments of the Wasatch fault zone?
      • The Most Recent Large Earthquake on the Nephi Segment of the Wasatch Fault Zone
      • Celebrate 50 Years of Utah State Parks with 40 Geocaches
      • Expanded Development of Tight Gas Reservoirs, Uinta Basin
      • Utah Core Research Center: Aiding Utah’s Petroleum Development
      • Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide and Enhanced Oil Recovery
      • Open-Pit Copper Mining at Bingham Canyon
      • Groundwater Monitoring in Utah’s West Desert
      • New Horned Dinosaurs from the Wahweap Formation, GSENM
      • The Case for Fishing Dinosaurs at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
      • From Field to Published Map
      • Using Digital Technology in the Field
      • Green Pond Landslide
      • Gunlock Meteorite at UGS
      • 6.0 Earthquake, Wells, NV
      • Geologic-Hazard Special-Study Area of Wasatch Front
      • New Fault Trenches on Weber Segment
      • Geologic-Hazard Maps for St. George-Hurricane Area
      • Utah Energy and Mineral Statistics Web Site
      • Great Salt Lake – The Titanium Connection
      • Ancient Exhumed River Channels of the Morrison and Cedar Mtn Formations
      • Scientific Investigations at Hanksville-Burpee Dinosaur Quarry
      • Unusually High Nitrate Concentrations in Southern Sanpete County’s Ground Water
      • Virtual Geologic Map Overlays
      • Ancient Landslides of the Beaver Dam Mountains
      • What is the Biggest Natural Arch in the World?
      • Logan Landslide
      • Large Rock Fall Closes Highway Near Cedar City, Utah
      • Second Damaging Y Mountain Rock Fall in Four Years
      • Landslide Inventory Mapping in Twelvemile Canyon, Central Utah
      • New Geologic Hazards Mapping in Utah
      • The Mercur District: A History of Utah’s Top Gold Camp
      • Major Oil Plays in Utah and Vicinity
      • Utah Potash: Resources, Production, and Exploration
      • Utah Geological Survey’s West Desert Ground-Water Monitoring Network: Progress Report
      • The Fossil Preparation Lab at the Utah Geological Survey: Bringing Earth’s Ancient Past to Life
      • Modeling Ground-Water Flow in Cedar Valley
      • Utah’s Pleistocene Fossils: Keys for Assessing Climate and Environmental Change
      • Utah’s Glacial Geology
      • Liquefaction in the April 15, 2010, M 4.5 Randolph Earthquake
      • GPS Monitoring of Slow-Moving Landslides
      • Updated Landslide Maps of Utah
      • Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley
      • Historical Maps – More Than Meets The Eye
      • Utah Shales May Contain The “Right Stuff”—Natural Gas
      • Exploring Utah’s Other Great Lake
      • What do environmental tracers tell us about groundwater in Snake Valley?
      • Utah’s Prehistoric Tanks: The Ankylosaurs
      • New Classification Scheme – Great Salt Lake Wetlands
      • The Thumb-Spiked Iguanodontians – Dinosaurian Cows of the Early Cretaceous
      • UGS Scientist Honored in Naming of Utah’s Newest Dinosaur: Martharaptor greenriverensis
      • Establishing Baseline Water Quality in the Southeastern Uinta Basin
      • Using Aquifers for Water Storage in Cache Valley
      • Geologic Maps As Art
      • UGS Releases New Interactive Geologic Map
      • The Early Miocene Markagunt Megabreccia
      • New Geologic Data Resources for Utah
      • Rock Fall: An Increasing Hazard in Urbanizing Southwestern Utah
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Glad You Asked: What were those strange white mounds along the shores of Great Salt Lake?

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Energy News: Increased battery demand spurs interest in Utah’s metallic resources

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GeoSights: Wind Cave, Logan, Utah

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April 28, 2020
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An In-depth Look at Ogden Valley’s Groundwater

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December 30, 2019
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Is There a Wetland on Your Property? Identification and Next Steps

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December 30, 2019
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Energy News, Survey Notes

Energy News: Covenant Oil Field in the Central Utah thrust Belt Turns 15 Years Old

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December 30, 2019
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Glad You Asked: Needing a Great Resource for Teaching Your Students About Utah Fossils?

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December 30, 2019
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GeoSights: Crystal Peak, Millard County, Utah

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December 30, 2019
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Our latest issue of Survey Notes is here!

Survey Notes Issue 51, Volume 3. September 2019.
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September 3, 2019
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Powell’s 1869 Journey Down the Green and Colorado Rivers

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August 29, 2019
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