Survey Notes

Survey Notes is an informative, non-technical magazine on noteworthy and interesting geologic topics in Utah and serves as the official UGS newsletter. You can find past Survey Notes issues in the Survey Notes Archive.

GeoSights Teacher’s Corner Core Center News Energy News Glad You Asked

Current Issue: January 2021 – Volume 53, Number 1

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IN THIS ISSUE

January 4, 2021

Utah’s Emerging Northern Paradox Basin Unconventional Oil Play

January 4, 2021

The Significance of Great Salt Lake’s North Arm on Lake Salinity

January 4, 2021

Core Center News: Mining Core at the UCRC— Boosting Utah’s Metal Exploration

January 4, 2021

Glad You Asked – How does Plate Tectonics make for Great Skiing?

January 4, 2021

GeoSights: Raplee Ridge, San Juan County, Utah

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Slope-shade model that combines hillshade and slope models. Airborne data for mapping the Wasatch fault zone at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.

April 5, 2018

The Wasatch Fault from Above

Eroded from Navajo Sandstone, split iron concretions expose a loosely cemented sand interior surrounded by a hard, layered outer rind of hematite. Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg

September 13, 2017

Glad You Asked: What are Moqui marbles?

March 25, 2015

The Uinta Mountains: A Tale of Two Geographies & More

Colorful volcanic sandstone and mudstone of the Brian Head Formation record initiation of volcanic activity in southwest Utah about 36 million years ago. Here, Eocene-age Brian Head deposits form rugged badlands at the south end of the Sevier Plateau. Dixie National Forest, Garfield County, Utah Photographer: Robert F. Biek; © 2012

August 21, 2014

Glad You Asked: How Do Geologists Know How Old a Rock Is?

Eastward view of research trench across a small (about 3 feet high) fault scarp on the West Valley fault zone in Salt Lake Valley. Photo by Michael Hylland.

May 21, 2012

Evaluating the seismic relation between the West Valley fault zone and Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone

Ice-polished rock and glacial striations (foreground) near Lake Blanche and Sundial Peak in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County.

September 1, 2010

Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them?

September 24, 2009

Glad You Asked: What should you do if you find a fossil?

The dull, light khaki gray color of Fantasy Canyon sandstone transforms to a glowing pale orange at sunset. This sculpture is named “Prowling Coyote.”

January 1, 2009

GeoSights: Fantasy Canyon, Uintah County

$Fragment of the Gunlock Meteorite. The polished slice through meteorite reveals it’s distinctive chondritic texture and fractures possibly due to impact with the surface of the Earth.$

May 1, 2008

Glad You Asked: So you think you have found a meteorite!

January 1, 2005

Glad You Asked: What are fulgurites and where can they be found?

June 1, 2001

Glad You Asked: What Are Minerals Used For?

May 1, 2000

The Rockhounder: Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County

January 1, 2000

Glad You Asked: How was Utah’s topography formed?

April 21, 1996

Glad You Asked: Igneous, Sedimentary, & Metamorphic Rocks

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September 2020
Volume 52, Number 3

Contents

The UGS Response to the March 18, 2020 Magnitude 5.7 Magna, Utah, Earthquake and Aftershock Sequence

Energy News: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Utah’s Energy Industry

Glad You Asked: What Gives Utah’s “Red Rock Country” its Color?

Geosights: White Rocks Tooele County, Utah

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May 2020
Volume 52, Number 2

Contents

Utah’s Ancient Mega-Landslides

The Uinta-Tooele structural zone–what’s in a name?

Glad You Asked: What were those strange white mounds along the shores of Great Salt Lake?

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

GeoSights: Wind Cave, Logan, Utah

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January 2020
Volume 52, Number 1

Contents

An In-depth Look at Ogden Valley’s Groundwater

Is There a Wetland on Your Property? Identification and Next Steps

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

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

GeoSights: Crystal Peak, Millard County, Utah

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Current Issue: January 2021 – Volume 53, Number 1

IN THIS ISSUE

Utah’s Emerging Northern Paradox Basin Unconventional Oil Play

The Significance of Great Salt Lake’s North Arm on Lake Salinity

Core Center News: Mining Core at the UCRC— Boosting Utah’s Metal Exploration

Glad You Asked – How does Plate Tectonics make for Great Skiing?

GeoSights: Raplee Ridge, San Juan County, Utah

The Wasatch Fault from Above

Glad You Asked: What are Moqui marbles?

The Uinta Mountains: A Tale of Two Geographies & More

Glad You Asked: How Do Geologists Know How Old a Rock Is?

Evaluating the seismic relation between the West Valley fault zone and Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone

Glad You Asked: Ice Ages – What are they and what causes them?

Glad You Asked: What should you do if you find a fossil?

GeoSights: Fantasy Canyon, Uintah County

Glad You Asked: So you think you have found a meteorite!

Glad You Asked: What are fulgurites and where can they be found?

Glad You Asked: What Are Minerals Used For?

The Rockhounder: Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County

Glad You Asked: How was Utah’s topography formed?

Glad You Asked: Igneous, Sedimentary, & Metamorphic Rocks

Recent Issues of Survey Notes

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