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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.
Granite Mountain is a mass of solid rock one mile up Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of Utah, not too far from Salt Lake City, Utah.Despite its name, Granite Mountain is primarily composed of quartz monzonite, an igneous rock similar to granite in appearance, physical characteristics, and chemical composition.
The sculpture is built of mud, precipitated salt crystals, and basalt rocks. It forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise coil originally jutting from the shore of the lake, [1] though due to the drying of the lake, as of 2022 a mile of lakebed separates Spiral Jetty from the shore. [2]
As a result, the elevation of the Bonneville shoreline is 243 ft (74 m) higher in the Lakeside Mountains, elevation 5,335 ft (1,626 m), west of the Great Salt Lake near the center of the Lake Bonneville water load, than at Red Rock Pass, 5,092 ft (1,552 m), where the lake was very shallow. [31]
The Black Rock on Great Salt Lake near Lake Point, Utah is a historic landmark. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2021 as part of the Black Rock Site. [1] [3] The site includes Black Rock and foundation ruins of the former Black Rock Resort. [2]
East of Salt Lake City in Mountain Dell Canyon, near the junction of State Route 65 and the road to Emigration Canyon (see Utah State Route 239 (1947-1969) 40°46′40″N 111°41′09″W / 40.777778°N 111.685833°W / 40.777778; -111.685833 ( Little Dell
Central City: 172: Salt Lake City East Side Historic District: Salt Lake City East Side Historic District: August 22, 1996 : Roughly bounded by South Temple, 1100 East, 400 South, University Ave., 900 South, and 500 East
Great Salt Lake from airspace over Salt Lake City. The Great Salt Lake lends its name to Salt Lake City, originally named "Great Salt Lake City" by the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Brigham Young, [29] who led a group of Mormon pioneers to the Salt Lake Valley southeast of the lake on July 24, 1847.