Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah.
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Iron oxide-stained sandstone at “Yellow Rock,” Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah.
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Iron County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Finely laminated sandstone of the Chinle Formation, Iron County, Utah.
Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah
Photographer: Tyler Knudsen
Dinosaur skin is preserved at many Utah dinosaur sites. Fossilized dinosaur skin impressions, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Kane County, Utah.
By: Paul Inkenbrandt, Kevin Thomas, and Christian Hardwick
North Logan City modified a gravel excavation site at the mouth of Green Canyon during the spring of 2011 to retain excess flow from the Green Canyon catchment. From August 2011 to March 2012, the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) monitored water flow into the gravel pit, and recorded gravity data and groundwater levels at several sites within a mile of the gravel pit. The UGS observed a significant increase in gravity from August to September in an area southwest of the gravel pit, which indicates an increase in the amount of water in that region from August to September. Based on the measured increase, water is traveling from the gravel pit towards the region of the principal aquifer of Cache Valley.
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A supervolcano blasting Yellowstone National Park to smithereens may capture the imagination, but the region’s real risk comes from earthquakes, researchers reported here Sunday (Oct. 27) at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting.
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Morning recess at St. Augustine Catholic School in Culver City, Calif., is like recess in many other schools. Children run and play in the afternoon sun. But nearby, away from the basketball hoops and the games of tag, the staff is preparing.
High Uintas Wilderness, Summit County, Utah
Photographer: Rich Emerson
On the north slope of the Uinta Mountains, Henrys Fork Lake is a paternoster lake—one of a chain or series of lakes in a glacially eroded valley. Most of the glaciers had retreated by 14,000 years ago, leaving behind moraines, U-shaped valleys, and cirques carved into Precambrian-age Uinta Mountain Group rocks.
Lone Peak, Salt Lake and Utah Counties, Utah
Photographer: J. Lucy Jordan
Differential weathering creates unusual patterns on the Little Cottonwood quartz monzonite, Lone Peak, Salt Lake and Utah Counties.
Notch Peak, House Range, Millard County, Utah
Photographer: Taylor Boden
Notch Peak quartz monzonite near Painter Springs, House Range, Millard County.
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