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The Utah Geological Survey is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.It also has an office in Cedar City, Utah. [1]It is a division of the Utah Department of Natural Resources [2] and is an applied scientific agency, which creates, interprets, and provides information about Utah's geological environment, resources and hazards, in order to promote safe, beneficial, and wise land usage.
Mudstones of the Uinta Formation (Uinta "C"), Uintah County, Utah. Uinta Formation (Uinta "C"), Uintah County, Utah. The Uinta Formation is a geologic formation in northeastern Utah. The name appears on a geologic map accompanying the Clarence King Fortieth Parallel report for 1876 [1] but not defined until 1878 [2] as the Uinta Group. As ...
Location map of the Paradox Basin [1] The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest New Mexico. The basin is a large elongate northwest to southeast oriented depression formed during the late Paleozoic Era.
Naturita Formation exposed in a roadcut in eastern Utah. A coal seam is visible below its sandstone bed, with a thin volcanic ash (white) layer in its upper portion.. The formation in Utah and western Colorado overlies the Cedar Mountain and Burro Canyon Formations, and underlies the Mancos Shale formation, thus occupying a similar position of sedimentary strata that have widely [6] been ...
The geology of Utah, in the western United States, includes rocks formed at the edge of the proto-North American continent during the Precambrian.A shallow marine sedimentary environment covered the region for much of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, followed by dryland conditions, volcanism, and the formation of the basin and range terrain in the Cenozoic.
Hayden Peak is a peak on the western edge of the High Uintas Wilderness in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the western Uinta Mountain Range Summit County, Utah, United States. [ 1 ] Description
The range has peaks ranging from 11,000 to 13,528 feet (3,353 to 4,123 m), with the highest point being Kings Peak, also the highest point in Utah. The Mirror Lake Highway crosses the western half of the Uintas on its way to Wyoming. Utah State Route 44 crosses the east end of the Uintas between Vernal and Manila.
The Price River Formation is a geologic formation in Utah. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period . The Price River Formation is approximately 200 metres (660 ft) thick at its type locality ( Price River Canyon ) and consists of cliff-forming sandstone and siltstone visible in the Book Cliffs .