Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Garfield County, Utah
Photographer: Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg; © 2014
Hematite concretions eroded from the Navajo Sandstone.
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Washington County, Utah
Photographer: Mark Milligan; © 2014
Petroglyphs carved into desert varnish-covered sandstone near Ivins, Washington County.
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They’re called “Miracles of Nature,” and it’s not possible to find a higher concentration of them anywhere in the world outside of Utah. Arches National Park contains so many natural red sandstone arches that there isn’t a specific count (over 2000 have been found in the park), and erosive forces over the course of time mean they’re constantly being created (by erosion) and destroyed (through natural collapses) in a geologically dynamic desert landscape.
What’s the best kind of pet rock? —a “gneiss” one!
Pearsons Canyon, Box Elder County, Utah
Photographer: Adam McKean; © 2014
Folded pegmatite vein in Farmington Canyon Complex gneiss, Pearsons Canyon, Box Elder County.
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Last week, while Davis County residents went about their routines, officials dealt with the aftermaths of two 6.5 simulated earthquakes that rocked Farmington and Bountiful.
Rochester Panel Rock Art Site, Emery County, Utah
Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg; © 2014
Petroglyphs carved into Ferron Sandstone, Rochester Panel Rock Art Site, Emery County.
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From fantastical to frightening, the animals of the Cambrian Period—beginning about 540 million years ago—tantalize the imagination. And they just keep getting weirder.
Notch Peak, Millard County, Utah
Photographer: Mark Milligan; © 2014
Banded white marble and quartz augen (eyeshaped crystals) in gray argillite, Notch Peak, Millard County.
We woke up on the right side of the bedrock today!
Canyonlands National Park, San Juan County, Utah
Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2014
Mesa Arch, in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park, formed as surface water pooled and eventually eroded through bedrock at the mesa’s edge. As the sun rises, its rays reflect off the 800-foot-high cliff of Jurassic-age sedimentary rock below the arch, bathing the bottom of the arch in an orange glow.
We had to turn our air conditioning on this weekend—it’s getting hot! Cool down with this photo while we thaw out our spectacular Utah Geology.
Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah
Photographer: Sonja Heuscher; © 2014
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