Geology underfoot in southern Utah
By: Richard L. Orndorff, Robert W. Wieder, and David G. Futey.
Contributors: Wieder, Robert W., 1958-; Futey, David G., 1959-
Publisher: Mountain Press Pub. Company; Mountain Press Pub. Co.; Mountain Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Missoula, Mont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780878425174
Subjects: Geology -- Utah.; Formations (Geology) -- Utah.; Geoparks -- Utah.; National parks and reserves -- Utah.; Parks -- Utah.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reading a lava landscape: Snow Canyon State Park; title: Where dinosaurs roamed: St. George dinosaur discovery site at Johnson Farm; title: When water cleaves rock: Parowan Gap; title: An alluring luster: Frisco and the Horn Silver Mine
pagenum: 27; title: A desiccated remnant of Lake Bonneville: Sevier Lake; title: Folded rocks: the Virgin Anticline, Quail Creek State Park; title: In the heart of the transition zone: Hurricane Fault; title: An ancient desert sleeps: the Navajo sandstone; title: Water from stone: Weeping Rock, Zion National Park; title: Gravity at work: the Springdale landslide; title: A desert reborn: Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park; title: Cycles of change: Castle Rock Campground; title: A record of explosive eruptions: Fremont Indian State Park; title: Toolmaker's delight: obsidian at Fremont Indian State Park; title: Ice Age glaciers: Fish Lake Valley; title: Unlikely neighbors at Red Canyon: Sevier Fault; title: A fairyland of color and form: Bryce Canyon National Park; title: Nature's palette: Escalante State Park and the Petrified Forest; title: Traveling through time: the Waterpocket Fold, Capitol Reef National Park; title: Someone pass the tabasco and a cold beer!: an oyster reef in the desert; title: A weathered army on the march: Goblin Valley; title: Radiation fever: Temple Mountain uranium mines; title: Slithering through a slot canyon: the San Rafael Reef; title: Uplift and erosion on the Colorado Plateau: goosenecks of the San Juan River; title: Mesas, buttes, and spires: Valley of the Gods; title: Bridges across time: Natural Bridges National Monument; title: Tse' hane, the rock that tells a story: Newspaper Rock; title: At the mystery's core: Upheaval Dome; title: A sea of fins: the Fiery Furnace; title: Weathering the tests of time: Arches National Park and the Entrada sandstone; title: In the footsteps of giants: Copper Ridge dinosaur tracks; title: Intruders in a sedimentary domain: Round Mountain and the La Sal laccoliths; title: Permafrost and flowing earth: periglacial features in the La Sal Mountains.