Geology, Utah
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- Big Rock Candy Mountain — Geology · Piute County, UT
Colorful hydrothermally altered volcanic rocks (yellow, orange, red, and white) in Marysvale Canyon along US-89, named after the folk song once locals posted…
- Black Rock Volcano — Geology · Millard County, UT
Horseshoe-shaped cinder-and-spatter cone rising more than 300 ft above the Black Rock Desert valley floor between I-15 and Kanosh. Part of Utah’s youngest vo…
- Bonneville Salt Flats — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Iconic remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville — ~30,000 acres of hard white salt crust managed by BLM as an ACEC and Special Recreation Management Area. Land…
- Candlestick Tower — Geology · San Juan County, UT
Isolated sandstone tower on the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands National Park—one of the park’s signature free-standing rock fins visible from mesa…
- Checkerboard Mesa — Geology · Kane County, UT
Signature Navajo Sandstone butte just inside Zion National Park's east entrance, etched with a grid of cross-bedding and joint fractures that read like a che…
- Church Rock — Geology · San Juan County, UT
Solitary ~200-foot Entrada sandstone tower standing alone beside US-191 between Moab and Monticello, near the UT-211 turnoff for Canyonlands Needles and News…
- Crystal Peak — Geology · Millard County, UT
A glowing white dome of Oligocene Tunnel Spring Tuff in the Wah Wah Mountains—an inverted volcanic ash-flow valley filled with crystal-rich rhyolite tuff, fr…
- Delano Peak — Geology · Piute County, UT
Highest summit of the Tushar Mountains (12,169 ft) on the Marysvale volcanic field, mapped in Piute County by GNIS and reached by a short alpine ridge trail …
- Deseret Peak — Geology · Tooele County, UT
High point of the Stansbury Mountains west of Tooele Valley—a rugged limestone/quartzite summit with classic Basin-and-Range relief above the Great Salt Lake…
- Devils Kitchen — Geology · Juab County, UT
Compact hoodoo amphitheater of red Claron-like (Flagstaff/Colton-adjacent) badlands nicknamed a “mini Bryce Canyon,” reached by a short trail off the Nebo Lo…
- Dinosaur National Monument Quarry Exhibit Hall — Geology · Uintah County, UT
Indoor wall of roughly 1,500 in-situ Late Jurassic dinosaur bones in the Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument’s Utah (Jensen) side. The Quarry Ex…
- Dugway Geode Beds — Geology · Juab County, UT
Utah’s best-known public geode locality on BLM land west of the Pony Express Trail: Miocene rhyolite cavities reworked by Lake Bonneville into soft lake-bed …
- Eardley Spit — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Named Lake Bonneville shoreline spit/bar on the Great Salt Lake’s south shore near Mills Junction — part of the classic Stansbury shoreline suite of gravel a…
- Escalante Petrified Forest State Park — Geology · Garfield County, UT
Utah State Park west of Escalante protecting colorful Chinle Formation petrified wood on mesa trails above Wide Hollow Reservoir. Short interpretive hikes (P…
- Fantasy Canyon — Geology · Uintah County, UT
BLM day-use pocket of delicately eroded Eocene sandstone hoodoos and fins southeast of Vernal — nicknamed for whimsical shapes (witches, seals, coyotes) pack…
- Fumarole Butte — Geology · Juab County, UT
Pleistocene basaltic-andesite shield volcano (~0.9 Ma) rising above Crater Bench on the Sevier Desert fringe northwest of Delta. Part of the Black Rock Deser…
- Ghost Rock — Geology · Emery County, UT
Named sandstone pinnacle above the I-70 corridor through the San Rafael Swell, a landmark for travelers crossing central Utah’s reef-and-canyon country. The …
- Golden Throne — Geology · Wayne County, UT
Iconic flat-topped Navajo Sandstone butte rising ~1,400 ft above Capitol Gorge in Capitol Reef National Park — a golden caprock landmark of the Waterpocket F…
- Gypsum Sinkhole — Geology · Wayne County, UT
Dramatic dissolution collapse in Cathedral Valley (Capitol Reef National Park) where groundwater removed gypsum and soft beds, leaving a deep vertical shaft …
- Jurassic National Monument (Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry) — Geology · Emery County, UT
BLM national monument protecting the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry — among the densest Jurassic dinosaur bone beds known, with tens of thousands of bones f…
- Knolls Dunes — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Gypsum sand dunes and mud-flat terrain on the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert at Knolls — the BLM Knolls OHV Special Recreation Management Area (~…
- Little Egypt — Geology · Garfield County, UT
Compact BLM geologic site of red-and-white banded Entrada Sandstone hoodoos—spheroidal ‘temple’ forms akin to Goblin Valley and Cathedral Valley—tucked west …
- Looking Glass Rock — Geology · San Juan County, UT
Roadside Entrada/Navajo sandstone arch and alcove just east of US-191 south of Moab (north of La Sal Junction)—a short walk to a ‘looking glass’ window frami…
- Merrimac Butte — Geology · Grand County, UT
Large flat-topped Entrada sandstone butte northwest of Moab, paired with neighboring Monitor Butte and named for the Civil War ironclads. Classic BLM canyon-…
- Pahvant Butte — Geology · Millard County, UT
A ~15,500-year-old tuff cone that erupted under rising Lake Bonneville in the Black Rock Desert. Wave-cut beaches and the famous white “Lace Curtain” cliff e…
- Red Fleet Dinosaur Trackway — Geology · Uintah County, UT
Utah State Park on Red Fleet Reservoir in the Uinta Basin desert: a signed hike reaches hundreds of Early Jurassic theropod footprints preserved in Navajo/Nu…
- Rock Corral Recreation Area — Geology · Beaver County, UT
BLM day-use and primitive-camping area on the west slope of the Mineral Mountains east of Milford — granite domes, inselbergs, and classic Mineral Mountains …
- Roosevelt Hot Springs Geothermal Area — Geology · Beaver County, UT
Utah’s hottest developed geothermal field on the west flank of the Mineral Mountains northeast of Milford — steaming ground, boiling mud pots, sulfur-stained…
- Sevier Lake — Geology · Millard County, UT
Large intermittent endorheic lake / playa in the Sevier Desert of Millard County — the terminal sink of the Sevier River system in the Great Basin. Expansive…
- Stansbury Island Bar — Geology · Tooele County, UT
Named Lake Bonneville shoreline bar on Stansbury Island in the Great Salt Lake — part of the classic Stansbury shoreline suite of tufa-cemented gravel and ba…
- Stockton Bar — Geology · Tooele County, UT
One of the largest and best-preserved Lake Bonneville shoreline bars, spanning the strait between South Mountain and the Oquirrh Mountains south of Tooele. G…
- Swasey Peak — Geology · Millard County, UT
High summit of the House Range west of Delta, overlooking classic Cambrian limestone country and desert basins. Geology pin for a named peak destination near…
- Tabernacle Hill — Geology · Millard County, UT
A well-preserved basaltic tuff ring and crater in the Black Rock Desert volcanic field south of Fillmore. The hill’s circular form and associated lava tubes …
- Temple of the Sun — Geology · Wayne County, UT
A free-standing Entrada Sandstone monolith rising more than 400 feet above the floor of Cathedral Valley in Capitol Reef’s remote North District. Paired with…
- Toadstool Hoodoos (Paria Rimrocks) — Geology · Kane County, UT
Easy 1.5-mile round-trip BLM hike in Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument to classic Entrada-and-Dakota sandstone pedestals (capped “toadstools”) alon…
- Tower Arch — Geology · Grand County, UT
Remote 92-foot sandstone arch in the Klondike Bluffs corner of Arches National Park. The 2.6-mile RT Tower Arch Trail climbs a rock wall, crosses a sandy val…
- Upheaval Dome — Geology · San Juan County, UT
Mysterious mile-wide circular structure in Canyonlands' Island in the Sky — debated as a salt-dome collapse or ancient impact crater. Short steep overlook tr…
- Veyo Volcano — Geology · Washington County, UT
Prominent Pleistocene cinder-cone volcano rising above the town of Veyo in Utah’s Dixie volcanic field northwest of St. George. A steep loose-cinder scramble…
- Wolverine Petrified Wood Area — Geology · Garfield County, UT
BLM / Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument special management area (Wolverine Petrified Wood Natural Environmental Area) with in-place Triassic Chinle…