The views in Utah go on for days, years, and centuries. Good thing we’ve got all of these beautiful geology photos to share with you! Have a wonderful evening, geo friends.
Raft River Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah
Photographer: Adam Hiscock; © 2013
Raft River metamorphic core complex, Raft River Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah.
Utah—putting the “Awe” in geology since the Precambrian.
High Uintas Wilderness, Summit County, Utah
Photographer: Chris DuRoss; © 2013
Ostler Peak (12,718 feet) is reflected in a meander bend of the Stillwater Fork of the Bear River in the Uinta Mountains. Thousands of years ago glaciers inundated much of the Uinta Mountains, leaving behind long glacier-carved valleys, steep-sided cirques, and jagged peaks.
Bryce Canyon National Park from Rainbow Point, Garfield County, Utah
Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2013
Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah
Photographer: Don DeBlieux; © 2013
Dissolution of subsurface salt caused the collapse of the Salt Valley anticline, forming vertical fractures in the Jurassic-age Entrada Sandstone. Weathering along the fractures has produced the spectacular fins, towers, and arches in the Devils Garden section of Arches National Park.
San Rafael Swell, Emery County, Utah
Photographer: Robert Ressetar; © 2013
Triassic-age sedimentary rocks in the San Rafael Swell, Emery County.
Snow Canyon State Park, Washington County, Utah
Photographer: Daniel King; © 2013
Eroded fragments of a dark ironstone layer contrast sharply against the pale-orange Jurassic-age Navajo Sandstone at Snow Canyon State Park. In places, the iron- and manganese-rich ironstone forms a resistant cap at the top of sandstone columns or pillars called hoodoos.
Wasatch Range, Utah County, Utah
Photographer: Stevie Emerson; © 2013
Glacially carved Timpanogos Basin in the Wasatch Range, Utah County.
Wasatch Range, Utah County, Utah
Photographer: Stevie Emerson, © 2013
The Wasatch Range was once home to more than 60 glaciers. On the east slope of Mount Timpanogos, Emerald Lake occupies a glacially carved cirque in the Pennsylvanian-age Bear Canyon Member of the Oquirrh Formation.
Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Box Elder County, Utah
Photographer: Mark Milligan; © 2013
Black basalt boulders of the Spiral Jetty in Great Salt Lake, Box Elder County.
Waterpocket Fold, Capitol Reef National Park, Garfield County, Utah
Photographer: Adam Hiscock; © 2013
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