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Miocene-age granite in the Mineral Mountains glows as the sun sets over the distant San Francisco Mountains near Milford.Christian Hardwick

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  • The Most Recent Large Earthquake on the Nephi Segment of the Wasatch Fault Zone
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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
  • Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide and Enhanced Oil Recovery
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  • Glad You Asked: What is Magnetic Declination?
  • GeoSights: Onion Creek salt diapir, Grand County
  • Groundwater Monitoring in Utah’s West Desert
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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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  • Virtual Geologic Map Overlays
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  • Glad You Asked: What are Those Lines on the Mountain? From Bread Lines to Erosion-Control Lines
  • Logan Landslide
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  • Second Damaging Y Mountain Rock Fall in Four Years
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  • Glad You Asked: Why are there Utah names on Mars?
  • GeoSights: St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson’s Farm, Washington County
  • 2011 Landslides in Utah
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  • Glad You Asked: Do Ants Mine Gold?
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  • Glad You Asked: You have a bookstore? In the digital age?
  • 2017 Flooding and Landslides in Box Elder County, Utah
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Quaternary Faults & FoldsSmall fault in the Moenkopi Formation, San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah. Photographer: Michael Vanden BergGeologic Map Portal
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