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Utah covers an area of 84,899 sq mi (219,890 km 2 ). It is one of the Four Corners states and is bordered by Idaho in the north, Wyoming in the north and east, by Colorado in the east, at a single point by New Mexico to the southeast, by Arizona in the south, and by Nevada in the west. Only three U.S. states (Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming) have ...
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 ...
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 ...
View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line The Monument Valley View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
San Rafael Swell. Location within Utah. Location. Colorado Plateau, Utah, US. The San Rafael Swell is a large geologic feature located in south-central Utah, United States about 16 miles (26 km) west of Green River. The San Rafael Swell, measuring approximately 75 by 40 miles (121 by 64 km), consists of a giant dome-shaped anticline of ...
Uinta Basin. The Uinta Basin (also known as the Uintah Basin) [ 1] is a physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division. [ 2] It is also a geologic structural basin in eastern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the Uinta Mountains.
The Sevier River (pronounced "severe") is a 400-mile (640 km)-long [2] river in the Great Basin of southwestern Utah in the United States. Originating west of Bryce Canyon National Park, the river flows north through a chain of high farming valleys and steep canyons along the west side of the Sevier Plateau before turning southwest and terminating in the endorheic basin of Sevier Lake in the ...
Geologic map of the Lisbon Valley area with key uranium mines numbered. The Mi Vida Mine is a red number 68. The Mi Vida Mine is a red number 68. Uranium was discovered in sandstone of the Chinle Formation in Lisbon Valley, San Juan County in 1913, and some carnotite was mined on a small scale for vanadium in 1917, 1940, and 1941.