Geophysical maps provide insight into an area’s geology by illuminating features and characteristics not apparent from a geologic map alone. Data collected from geophysical surveys are used to create maps showing the variability in physical properties of different rock types including density, thermal attributes, seismic velocity, magnetic susceptibility and other electromagnetic parameters.
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An Eagle Mountain family made an enormous, and ancient, discovery over the weekend when they went searching for fossils and dinosaur bones.
The Watt family was attending a family reunion near the San Rafael Desert, and when they left to look for dinosaur remains they found them.
Dr. Jim Kirkland is Utah’s state paleontologist, and he said the family’s decision to call experts before digging too deeply was the right one.
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Utah paleontologists are looking for one enormous helicopter to lift a herd of dinosaurs
It may sound like fiction or a scene from Jurassic Park, but there’s a herd of Utahraptors near Moab and paleontologists are trying to figure out how to move it.
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An earthquake of local magnitude 2.7 occurred at 5:32 a.m., Tuesday, about 90 miles southeast of Cedar City in northern Arizona according to the U.S. Geological Survey website. The USGS also lists the quake at 3.0 magnitude because it uses a different rating system. A micro-earthquake of local magnitude 2.0 occurred last Wednesday 5 miles south of Hurricane; and another 2.0 occurred Sunday 13 miles north-northwest of Ivins.
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by V.E. Langenheim, H. Willis, N.D. Athens, B.A. Chuchel, S.M. Kraushaar, N.E. Knepprath, J. Rosario, J. Roza, A.I. Hiscock, and C.L. Hardwick
A new isostatic residual gravity map of the northwest corner of Utah is based on compilation of preexisting data and new data collected by the Utah and United States Geological Surveys. Pronounced gravity lows occur over Junction, Grouse Creek, and upper Raft River Valleys, indicating significant thickness of low-density Tertiary sedimentary rocks and deposits. Gravity highs coincide with exposures of dense pre-Cenozoic rocks in the Raft River Mountains. Higher values in the eastern part of the map may be produced in part by deeper crustal density variations or crustal thinning. Steep linear gravity gradients coincide with mapped Neogene normal faults near Goose Creek and may define basin-bounding faults concealed beneath Junction and Upper Raft River Valleys.
MP-13-2 $14.95
by Dave Keighley
The Green River Formation of the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah is host to not only one of the world’s largest oil shale deposits, primarily in the Mahogany oil shale zone, but it also contains significant conventional oil and gas reserves in interfingering sand bodies that grade into the laterally equivalent Colton and Wasatch Formations. However, very few marker beds and intervals can be correlated across the basin to help subdivide the 2 km-thick succession of upper Green River Formation strata overlying the main oil shale zone. This report forms part of an ongoing attempt to subdivide this sedimentary succession by identifying systematic variations in the abundance of particular elements, by way of inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectrometry analyses, to produce a chemostratigraphy of the succession. This CD contains a 30-page report plus eight appendices.
MP-13-1 $14.95
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