Utah Open Lands Property: Green Ravine, Oquirrh Mountains, UT. 6/2/2011

An ancient sea cliff on the left, looking over what's left of the once 1,000 foot deep lake.

A view along the property line.

This is where I was when we spoke Erica :)

Check out the tilt of the Stansbury Mountains in the background, it's not the result of an un-leveled camera. 

Fantastic down-warping seen through the cut in the ridge. 

What I found visually interesting in this shot was the 45 degree dip in the bedrock of the foreground. Yet, father east in the top left of the picture, the bedrock that's been exposed seems as though the layers were neatly stacked; which they were, but never tilted by tectonics.

 

I get college credit and professional experience for this? I think i chose wisely.

Utah Open Lands Property: University of Utah Heritage Preserve, Shoreline Trail, UT. 5/28-6/1/2011

The highpoint of one of the lower westerly ridges.

A couple of shorelines from ancient lakes are visible in the center of the picture. Look at the large vertical surface in the center: you can see the Bonneville shoreline at the top and a Provo shoreline on the bottom.

Utah Open Lands Property: Castleton Tower, Castle Valley, UT. 5/22/2011

Castleton Tower, the result of differential erosion along what was formerly a large plateau.

An interesting monocline with the La Sals in the background.

Backpacking N.E. of Moab, UT. 5/20-24/2011

Our humble home on the trail. 

Look at all that awesome cross-bedding on those petrified sand dunes. 

The girl who kicked my ass hiking and humbled me on this trip.

 

Desert thunderstorms blowing in.

San Rafael Swell, UT. 05/19/2011

 ~30 miles S.W. of Green River, UT.

Salt Lake City, Utah. 05/13/2011

 Looking southwest from the shoreline trail.

Looking west over the University at the Wasatch Range. 

The Great Salt Lake.

Moab, Utah. 01/2010

Along the Colorado River, that's frozen fog on the plants. 

 

 Looking the other direction in the same location. 

 

Balanced Rock in Arches National Park, the fog is still very thick and the plants still frozen giving them a blue tint.

A closer view of what the plants looked like through the morning. 

One of the most iconic images of the west, Delicate Arch stands as a testament to the erosional processes of water.

Looking south/southwest from the trail-head leading to Delicate Arch at sunset.

A well defined fin near Landscape Arch.

Shoshone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, WY. 07/2009

Entering into Shoshone Lake via De Lacy Creek.

Entering Shoshone Geyser Basin.

Antelope Island State Park, Utah. 05/05/2011

Provo Level Shoreline?



Trickster McGee




Looking at the Weber River Delta.




Looking North into Idaho (Snow Capped Mountains). Heavy on the Blue.




I was playing with Lightroom, making things look as obnoxious as possible when I saw those horizontal lines cutting through the foreground. I believe that what you are seeing are ancient shorelines from the Provo level of Lake Bonneville.

Fischer Towers, Utah. 01/2011

One of the first towers hiking into the area. Left behind when the salt that once filled this salt valley anticline retreated to the pacific via the Colorado River.






Looking at the spine in the middle, tectonics were obviously in play when forming that, but what was on the edges, salt?



Here is a better look.



Looking to the North wall confining the area.





Sand tinting the icicles.



A nicely eroded window.

Dog Lake, Big Cotton Wood Canyon, Utah. 12/2010

A couple minuets up from the trail head.





At the base of the Dog Lake.