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Utah Dinosaur Quarry Reopens
The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, one of Utah’s best known excavation sites, will re-open for the season on March 27. The quarry offers interactive displays and exhibits, including a display on the excavation history of the site, a fossil preparation table, replica skulls of animals found there, and a mounted Allosaurus skeleton. Visitors can also watch
5 Dinosaurs From Utah and Why They Are Amazing
Source: by Scott Dunn, KSL.com Contributor – August 12th, 2012 Dinosaurs have made numerous appearances in popular culture, particularly the movies: Gertie the Dinosaur in 1912; Godzilla in the 1950s and Jurassic Park in the 1990s. There is even a dinosaur in the Dilbert comic strip. Where do they really come from? Some of them
10,000-year-old Mammoth Tusk: Fillmore Find Makes History
After 20 years of traversing the world in the Navy, Earl Gowin has seen a little bit of everything. But it took retirement – on a family ranch near Fillmore – for Gowin’s grandest discovery. In November 2004, a bulldozer operator hit something hard in Gowin’s sand and gravel pit, which he had leased to
Utah Rock & Mineral Shops
I found this list of shops in some articles we had so I thought that I would post them for everyone. I haven’t verified if they are all still around so I suggest you contact them first before going there. If you find out that some information is wrong for them or if one of
Why Aren’t More Diamonds Found Here?
With all the coal in the United States, why aren’t more diamonds found here? By: Andrew A. Sicree, FM National Newsletter Editor Diamonds are pure carbon. Coal, however, is a complex mixture of large organic molecules consisting mainly of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen with some nitrogen, sulfur, and other elements. A coal bed forms from
Wonderstone
in the Vernon Hills, Tooele County A striking feature of Vernon Hills wonderstone is its intricately folded bands that create colorful designs in cream, yellow-brown, and multiple shades of maroon. Geologic information: The Vernon Hills wonderstone is a welded-vitric tuff (vitric means glassy) of rhyolitic composition. It is a volcanic rock composed predominantly of volcanic glass
Yellowstone Caldera
U. scientists say Yellowstone caldera may be filling with magma The floor of the Yellowstone caldera has risen at a rate faster than has ever been observed before, according to a new study that gives further proof that “ground deformation” at the park resembles the gently heaving chest of a slumbering giant. The likely cause