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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
Energy & Mineral News: UGS, BHP Xplor, and Utah’s Mineral Future
How Groundwater Contributes to Great Salt Lake
Geologic Hazard Resources for Cities, Towns, and Counties
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: Stretched-Pebble Conglomerate in the Raft River Mountains, Box Elder County
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: Utah Has A State Crustacean?
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
Damaging Debris Flows Prompt Landslide Inventory Mapping for the 2012 Seely Fire, Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah
Every Record Must Fall – An Update on the Largest Arches in the World
What is a Metamorphic Core Complex?
Northwest Utah—Could it be Utah’s Newest Energy Hotspot?
2011 Landslides in Utah
Another large landslide closes highway near Cedar City, Utah
Evaluating the seismic relation between the West Valley fault zone and Salt Lake City segment of the Wasatch fault zone
Oil Shale vs. Shale Oil: What’s The Difference?
UGS Uses Geophysics to Explore for New Geothermal Resources
Utah’s Potash Resources and Activity
Frack Sand in Utah?
Utah Still Supplying Gilsonite to the World After 125 Years
Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs and the Utah Geological Survey’s “Invasion” of London
When Sharks, Rays & Sawfish Ruled Utah’s Rivers
UGS Paleontologists Collect Dinosaur Megablock
Deep Nitrate in an Alluvial Valley: Potential Mechanisms for Transport
Update on the Markagunt Gravity Slide
The New Ogden 30′ x 60′ Geologic Map
Mapping Utah’s Geology
New Guidelines for Investigating Geologic Hazards
Paleoseismic Investigation of the Taylorsville Fault, West Valley Fault Zone, Utah
Recent Urban Geologic Mapping of Northwestern Salt Lake Valley
Salt Crust on Great Salt Lake’s North Arm
Bingham Canyon’s Manefay Landslides and the Future of the Mine
UGS is Major Partner in Large Geothermal Project near Milford, Utah
Does Utah Preserve North America’s Oldest Cretaceous Dinosaurs Because of Ancient Salt Deposits?
UGS’s Role in Contributing Water-Quality Data to the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network
Mapping Wetlands in the Upper Bear River Watershed
Tooele 30′ x 60′ quadrangle geologic map – Faults, Lakes, and Resources
Practical Uses of Geologic Maps
The Wasatch Fault from Above
Geologic Hazard Mapping in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
2017 Flooding and Landslides in Box Elder County, Utah
Groundwater conditions at the Utah FORGE site
Monroe’s “sweet” groundwater points to contamination source
Monitoring Groundwater Response to Large-Scale Juniper Treatments
Oil and Gas in the Uinta Basin, Utah – What to Do with the Produced Water
Using gravity in a multidisciplinary approach to better understand the subsurface at the Utah FORGE site
Horizontal Drilling in Utah: Can Utah Compete with Surrounding States?
UGS Groundwater & Spring Flow Monitoring in Snake Valley
Wetland Monitoring in Snake Valley, Utah: Developing a Method to Understand Wetland Condition
Survey Notes Archive
Emergency Response and the Utah Geological Survey, What role do we serve and what services are provided?
LiDAR—Valuable Tool in the Field Geologist’s Toolbox
Director’s Perspective 47-1
The Uinta Mountains: A Tale of Two Geographies & More
Understanding Southeast Utah’s Cane Creek Oil, A Continuing Challenge
Today’s (and Tomorrow’s?) Phosphate
Energy & Minerals
Coal
Mercury in Coal
Industrial Minerals
Hydrocarbons
Crude Oil
Shale Oil
Leadville Limestone Exploration Play
PUMP
Paradox Basin II
Green River Formation
Bluebell
Ferron Sandstone
Paradox Basin
Oil Shale
Oil Sands/Tar Sands
UGS-Funded Hydrocarbon Research
Coalbed Methane
Natural Gas
Tight Gas Sands
Paleozoic Shale-Gas Resources
Cretaceous Shale-Gas Resources
Produced Water
Produced-Water Management Tools
Uinta Basin Water Study
Microbialites
Metals
Historical Uranium and Vanadium
Historical Mineral Document Collection
Energy & Mineral Information & Maps
Utah Energy & Mineral Statistics
Energy & Mineral Publications
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Utah Geothermal Network
National Geothermal Data System
Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage
Utah Statewide Carbon Storage Assessment: Geological Data Gathering, Analysis, Sharing, and Engagement
Reactive, Multi-phase Behavior of CO2 in Saline Aquifers Beneath the Colorado Plateau
Basin Analysis and Reservoir Characterization for Sequestration in Iron County
CarbonSAFE Phase 1
Statewide CO2 Storage Potential – CUSP
Greater Aneth Oil Field – Geologic Sequestration Demonstration
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Groundwater
Hydrologic Cycle
Groundwater & Aquifers
Major Aquifers of Utah
Groundwater Quality
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Wetlands in Utah
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Utah Wetland Working Group
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Quaternary Volcanic Rocks of Utah
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Radon
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Springhill Landslide, North Salt Lake
Update on Springhill Landslide
Conditions Prior to 2010, Springhill Landslide
Summary of Springhill Landslide Movement and Conditions in 2010
Summary of Springhill Landslide Movement and Conditions in 2009-2011
Debris Flows
Parkway Drive Landslide, North Salt Lake
Spring Creek Road Landslide, Riverdale, Weber County, Utah
Rock Fall in Rockville
Current Events
Rock Fall in Provo 2009
Landsliding in Northern Utah, Early 2009
Another Year of Damaging Landslides in Northern Utah
Creekside Drive Landslides
Sunset Drive Landslide
South Weber Landslide
Rock Fall in Provo 2005
Sage Vista Lane Landslide
Kanab Creek Landslide
South Weber Landslide
Debris Flows near Spring Lake & Santaquin
East Capitol Blvd.-City Creek Landslide
Debris Flows in Farmington
Rock Fall near Devils Slide
Spring Lake & Santaquin debris flow photos
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Guide for Homebuyers & Real-Estate Agents
Guide to Recognizing and Reducing Landslide Damage
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Utah Quaternary Fault Parameters
Liquefaction Advisory Group
Ground Shaking Working Group
Utah Earthquake Probabilities
Basin and Range Province Earthquake Working Group
Basin & Range Earthquake Summits
Lake Bonneville Geologic Conference and Short Course
Paleoseismology of Utah Series
Popular Geology
Dinosaurs & Fossils
Utahraptor Megablock Fossil Project
Diabloceratops
Falcarius Utahensis
Age of Dinosaurs
Squatting Dinosaur Tracks
Dinosaur Tracks, Flaming Gorge
Pterosaur Track Slab Journey
Great Salt Lake & Lake Bonneville
Mirabilite Spring Mounds Near Great Salt Lake Marina
A Lake Divided
Commonly Asked Questions About Utah’s Great Salt Lake & Lake Bonneville
Geologic History
Ice Age
Mammoth Tusk Discovery
Utah Landforms
Virtual Tour Central Wasatch Front Canyons
Rocks & Minerals
Rock & Mineral Collecting Sites
The Rockhounder: Dugway Geode Beds, Juab County
The Rockhounder: Bixbyite, Rutile, and Amethyst Crystals near Marysvale, Piute County
The Rockhounder: Smokey Quartz and Feldspar Crystals at Rock Corral Canyon in the Mineral Mountains, Beaver County
The Rockhounder: Agate, chert, jasper, and petrified wood between Capitol Reef National Park and Caineville, Wayne County
The Rockhounder: Gypsum sand near Knolls, Tooele County
The Rockhounder: Oolitic Sand on Stansbury Island, Tooele County
The Rockhounder: “Onyx” Near Mount Nebo, Juab County
The Rockhounder: Obsidian in the Black Rock Desert, Millard County
The Rockhounder: Topaz and other minerals found at Topaz Mountain, Juab County
The Rockhounder: Sunstones at Sunstone Knoll, Millard County
The Rockhounder: Wonderstone in the Vernon Hills, Tooele County
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