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Geologic Map of the Haycock Mountain Quadrangle, Garfield County, Utah

By: Robert F. Biek, John J. Anderson, Edward G. Sable, and Peter D. Rowley

The Haycock Mountain quadrangle lies in the central part of the Markagunt Plateau in southwest Utah and includes the eastern part of Panguitch Lake, a popular area of summer and winter recreational use. Despite the plateau’s relatively simple structure of a gently east-tilted fault block, the quadrangle contains scenic and instructive exposures of south-west Utah’s youngest basaltic lava flows, classic examples of inverted valleys capped by older lava flows, and the southern margin of the Markagunt Megabreccia, including newly identified, exceptionally instructive exposures of its basil slip surface. The Megabreccia is the debris of Utah’s largest catastrophic landslide deposit, which covers 1300 square miles (3400 km²) of the northern and central Markagunt Plateau.

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Parkway Drive Landslide, North Salt Lake

Check out this bit of information we’ve got up on our website on the North Salt Lake landslide at Parkway Drive!

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Lindon residents participate in 6th annual earthquake drill

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You can never be too prepared — that’s the message Lindon City leaders are trying to send to residents.

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POTD September 16, 2014: Silver Island Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah

Silver Island Mountains, Box Elder County, Utah
Photographer: Gregg Beukelman; © 2013

Chemical weathering produces pits and holes in the surface of Jurassic-age quartz monzonite at Crater Island, in the northeast part of the Basin and Range Province. The “island” of rock rises from the barren, salt-covered plains of the Great Salt Lake Desert east of the distant Pilot Range.

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A. Scott Anderson: Quake reminder: Businesses must be prepared

Preparedness for a natural disaster does not only impact our personal lives, but our professional lives as well. Businesses can take several steps beyond emergency kits to help insure their business’ recovery, and job security for their employees. Check it out!

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September is National Disaster Preparedness Month. The recent California earthquake reminds us once again how important it is for businesses to be prepared for disasters so they can recover quickly and get back to business.

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Special presentation this Friday of Paleontological GSENM discoveries

The BLM will be hosting a special dinosaur presentation tomorrow, September 12, at the GSENM Visitor Center in Kanab, Utah, at 7pm. Read for more info, and what to expect at this special event!

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On Friday, September 12, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host “Parasaurolophus:  New Insights Based on GSENM Discoveries,” a special presentation at the GSENM Visitor Center, located at 745 East Highway 89, in Kanab, Utah.

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Paleontologists resume excavation work that began 155 years ago

A historical dinosaur dig begins again after 155 years. Read more about the team, and what they’re finding!

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The remains of Utah’s oldest-known dinosaur are hidden so far out of the way that it’s hard to imagine how anyone ever found them.

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“Spot the Rock” September 11, 2014

Time for another round of “Spot the Rock”! You might think these photos seem faded or have altered colors, but that’s actually the mineral’s appearance at this site! Can you tell us what mineral is pictured?

For those that know the answer, take the super “Spot the Rock” challenge and tell us the one place in Utah this mineral is found, or what causes the texture in some of the pieces (shown in the close-up photo).

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UPDATE: Answer revealed!
How many of you knew what mineral was shown in last week’s “Spot the Rock”, or where the spectacular purple mineral is located? It looks like we only had one correct guess—it is fluorite! However, fluorite in this area can also be found in various shades of white, blue, green, buff, yellow, and reddish-brown, dependent upon the presence of various trace elements.The fluorite pictured is located at Bell Hill mine, at the south end of Spor Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah.

The textures seen in the close-up picture are fossil corals.

Ore from the Bell Hill mine only contains trace amount Beryllium (0.004% to 0.002%) and no visible bertrandite (bertrandite is a beryllium bearing mineral found at the Brush Wellman mine about a mile to the west).

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2014 Big Water Dinosaur Festival

Good morning everyone! With another weekend on the horizon, here’s something fun you can plan for in the coming weeks—the 2014 Big Water Dinosaur Festival!

“The Big Water Dinosaur Festival is celebrating the many past and ongoing dinosaur fossil discoveries in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument and other areas surrounding Big Water, UT. The festival will have arts, crafts, food, and entertainment. There will be tons of kids’ activities, including the BLM Dinosaur Murder Mystery, dinosaur drawing and coloring contests, lots of dinosaur games and activities and ‘Funtime Inflatables’ with a bounce house, giant slide, etc. There will be evening music and entertainment and a Dinosaur cake contest.”

For more information: http://www.bigwaterdinosaurfestival.com/

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September is National Preparedness Month

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The fear of not knowing what to do in the event of a disaster, how to gather and care for loved ones and how to survive until help arrives can be more traumatizing than the actual disaster.

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