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The Little Cottonwood Canyon watershed provides drinking water to much of Salt Lake County. [5] The National Forest Service considers Little Cottonwood Canyon a protected watershed area. In order to prevent contamination of the watershed by fecal runoff, no dogs (except service animals and avalanche search dogs) are permitted in the canyon.
Alta was founded about 1865 to house miners from the Emma mine, the Flagstaff mine, and other silver mines in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Sensationally rich silver ore in the Emma mine enabled its owners to sell the mine at an inflated price to British investors in 1871.
Farther north, Big Cottonwood Canyon features tricky climbing on quartzite. The densely vegetated narrow canyons of the Wasatch Range, such as Big Cottonwood Canyon and Little Cottonwood Canyon, are heavily visited; on 25 September 2005, 1,200 automobiles entered Little Cottonwood in an hour. [7]
Xenoliths in granodiorite of the Alta Stock, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah Large xenolith of sandstone (probably from the Albee Formation) within the Fairlee Pluton in Vermont Peridotite (green) mantle xenolith within a (dark) volcanic bomb from Vulkaneifel , Germany (coin of one euro for scale)
Lambs Canyon Road Little Cottonwood Canyon: Salt Lake Little Cottonwood Creek: SR-210: Little Emigration Canyon: Morgan Mormon Trail: Little Grand Canyon: Emery San Rafael River: Logan Canyon: Cache Logan River: US-89: Maple Canyon: Sanpete Maple Canyon: Utah Maple Canyon Road Marysvale Canyon: Piute, Sevier Sevier River: US-89: former D&RGW ...
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 U.S. EPA orders Chiquita Canyon landfill to take immediate action to safeguard the public. Meanwhile, nearby residents have filed suit to close the facility.
Snowbird, Utah. The development of Little Cottonwood Canyon and the town of Alta dates to the 19th century. A U.S. Army soldier first prospected for silver there in 1869. Mining became a large local industry, and Little Cottonwood Canyon became one of the largest producers of silver ore in the Wasatch Mount