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  • Celebrate 50 Years of Utah State Parks with 40 Geocaches
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  • Utah Core Research Center: Aiding Utah’s Petroleum Development
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  • Glad You Asked: What is Magnetic Declination?
  • GeoSights: Onion Creek salt diapir, Grand County
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  • The Case for Fishing Dinosaurs at the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
  • GeoSights: G.K. Gilbert Geologic View Park, Salt Lake County
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  • Glad You Asked: What are Those Lines on the Mountain? From Bread Lines to Erosion-Control Lines
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Utah WetlandsUtah WetlandsThe boulder at the park entrance is quartz monzonite of the Little Cottonwood stock and was originally from the Temple Quarry in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The drill holes along the left side of the boulder were made in the late 1800s by quarry workers using sledge hammers and hand-held drill bits.G.K. Gilbert Geologic View Park
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