• Daily Geology Photos – January 31

    Updated: 2011-01-31 17:20:05
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 24 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – September 23 Daily Geology Photos – May 10 Daily Geology Photos – May 19 Daily Geology Photos – May 21 Daily Geology Photos – [...]

  • Geology Links for January 31st, 2011

    Updated: 2011-01-31 11:00:04
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for January 31st, 2011: Outdoor Adventure: How the Rockies were Formed : Video : Discovery Channel Dinosaurs survived mass extinction by 700,000 years, fossil find suggests (Science Direct) Canada’s tar sands: Muck and brass (The Economist) Earthquake – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rock Cycle: Face of the [...]

  • Geology Links for January 30th, 2011

    Updated: 2011-01-30 18:00:09
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for January 30th, 2011: Tour of geologic time The Dynamic Duo: Weathering and Erosion | Dynamic Earth Observe animations of earthquake waves. Geology Labs On-Line Another 10 Geological Wonders You Didn’t Know About – Oddee.com 10 Geological Wonders you didn’t know – Oddee.com Plate Tectonics – examples, body, process, [...]

  • Daily Geology Photos – January 30

    Updated: 2011-01-30 17:20:15
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 90 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – September 23 Daily Geology Photos – May 10 Daily Geology Photos – May 19 Daily Geology Photos – May 21 Daily Geology Photos – [...]

  • Daily Geology Photos – January 29

    Updated: 2011-01-29 17:20:08
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 53 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – September 23 Daily Geology Photos – May 10 Daily Geology Photos – May 19 Daily Geology Photos – May 21 Daily Geology Photos – [...]

  • Geology Links for January 28th, 2011

    Updated: 2011-01-29 06:00:03
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology on January 28th, 2011: Earth science at sdsc Geology For Kids – Geology games The making of an angular unconformity: Hutton’s unconformity at Siccar Point | Highly Allochthonous A history of supercontinents on planet Earth Geology in Motion Welcome to the USGS – U.S. Geological Survey Job Bank – [...]

  • More Frequent Drought Likely in Eastern Africa

    Updated: 2011-01-28 21:00:00
    The increased frequency of drought observed in eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to new research published in Climate Dynamics .

  • U.S. Mineral Values Up in 2010

    Updated: 2011-01-28 20:00:00
    The value of mineral production in the U.S. increased 9 percent in 2010 from that of 2009, suggesting that the nonfuel minerals industries, particularly metals, were beginning to recover from the economic recession that began in December 2007 and lasted well into 2009. The value of raw, nonfuel minerals mined in the U.S

  • Daily Geology Photos – January 28

    Updated: 2011-01-28 17:20:04
    A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “geology.” Displayed below are 16 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. Similar Posts on Geology News: Daily Geology Photos – September 23 Daily Geology Photos – May 10 Daily Geology Photos – May 19 Daily Geology Photos – May 21 Daily Geology Photos – [...]

  • Geology Links for January 28th, 2011

    Updated: 2011-01-28 09:00:05
    Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for January 28th, 2011: lake vostok drilling in antarctic ‘running out of time’ Geology For Kids – By KidsGeo.com YouTube – Earth’s Palaeogeography In 600 Million Years. News Stories Earth Science Earth’s Varied Topography Geology 10L Rocks and Minerals NAGeoMap.jpg (JPEG Image, 3300×2938 pixels) – Scaled (21%) Argow Home [...]

  • REPORT FINDS UTAH SCHOOLS AT RISK IN EARTHQUAKE

    Updated: 2011-01-25 14:01:20
    necn.com A volunteer panel that assesses earthquake risks in Utah said it examined nearly 130 school buildings in the state and found more than half fail to meet federal earthquake safety guidelines. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Friday that 77 of 128 Utah school buildings examined by the Utah Seismic Safety Commission failed the so-called sidewalk surveys [...]

  • NEW DINOSAURS DISCOVERED

    Updated: 2011-01-25 13:56:49
    thefutureofthings.com Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Utah Geological Survey in Salt Lake City discovered and classified the skeletons of two new species of dinosaurs. Dated to the Early Cretaceous Epoch (approximately 145.5 to 99.6 million years ago), both are beaked herbivorous dinosaurs classified as iguanodonts. The two skeletons were found at [...]

  • Press Release: Planetary Society Congratulates NanoSail-D Team

    Updated: 2011-01-21 08:00:00
    On the Planetary Society web site: Planetary Society Congratulates NanoSail-D Team

  • UTAH DNR OPENS ONLINE BOOKSTORE

    Updated: 2011-01-13 19:45:47
    kpvi.com The Utah Department of Natural Resources has opened an online bookstore to complement its existing store at department headquarters. Customers can now buy topographic and recreational maps at mapstore.utah.gov. Bookstore manager Pat Stokes says many customers have been frustrated by construction on the North Temple viaduct. She says the online bookstore will allow customers to shop at [...]

  • Cretaceous Shale-Gas Resources

    Updated: 2011-01-12 22:52:11
    A new page has been added to the UGS web site. Cretaceous Mancos Shale, Uinta Basin, Utah: Resource Potential and Best Practices for an Emerging Shale-Gas Play Funded by Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America VIEW PAGE

  • DNR Map & Bookstore Goes Online

    Updated: 2011-01-12 22:42:02
    Shopping is now easier at the Natural Resources Map & Bookstore. The store, known for its extensive collection of topographic and recreational maps, now provides easy-to-use online shopping for its customers. The Web site is: mapstore.utah.gov. “Our customers who have been frustrated by the construction on the North Temple viaduct and TRAX rail will be able [...]

  • Do you know Amethyst?

    Updated: 2011-01-11 01:33:26
    Amethyst is the purple form of the mineral quartz. Fairly hard, amethyst is a 7 on the Mohs hardness scale. Amethyst is always purple and has a shiny appearance.

  • SURVEY NOTES volume 43 number 1

    Updated: 2011-01-10 18:02:03
    This Issue Contains: Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley Updated Landslide Maps of Utah GPS Monitoring of Slow-Moving Landslides Liquefaction in the April 15, 2010, M 4.5 Randolph Earthquake Glad You Asked: What are the Roots of Geobotany? Teacher’s Corner GeoSights: Devils Kitchen, Juab County, Utah Survey News Energy News: Energy Office in Transition New Publications READ THIS ISSUE PAST ISSUES

  • IS TAR SAND MINING VIABLE IN UTAH

    Updated: 2011-01-03 22:48:40
    newwest.net Tar sands development often conjures images of a bleak northeast Alberta landscape, scraped and scalped of its vegetation after being converted to sprawling strip mines from which much of Canadian oil imports to the United States originate. But if a proposal by Alberta-based Earth Energy Resources survives environmentalists’ appeal, eastern Utah’s canyon country could become a [...]

  • 2010 WAS BANNER YEAR FOR DINOSAUR DISCOVERIES

    Updated: 2011-01-03 22:26:58
    deseretnews.com In Utah’s arid, wind-swept deserts, paleontologists would be shocked to go an entire year without stumbling across the remains of a rock-encrusted dinosaur. Yet naming eight new species in 2010 was beyond their annual optimism. “It’s actually a banner year,” said Mark Loewen, research curator and paleontologist for the Utah Museum of Natural History and adjunct [...]

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