Grandpa and His Magic Rocks: An Introduction to Utah's Amazing Past Worlds for Kids of all Ages SH-ES7-A

Grandpa and His Magic Rocks: An Introduction to Utah's Amazing Past Worlds for Kids of all Ages SH-ES7-ABy: Mike Martling What happens when five frisky grandchildren spend two weeks with Grandpa and Grandma? A lot! As a matter of fact, four billion years of Utah geology and paleontology! Written for middle school age children (and anyone else with a hankering to know why Utah has trilobites, dinosaurs, mammoths, volcanoes, mountain ranges, glaciers, salt lakes, canyons, hoodoos, earthquakes, and lots of red rocks). Full of love, fun, humor, and a lot of

and kept it in the lake to the east–that was Clear Lake

The relation of geohydrologic setting to the potential for ground-water contamination in Utah

and Grapevine Wash formations of southwest Utah

Specimens from East Africa and Switzerland are also considered to be identifiable only to genus

Idaho and Wyoming

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Join geology professor and author Shawn Willsey as he uses clear prose

this map features key points of interest including Salt Lake City

Mesozoic to early Cenozoic compressional deformation in the Utah-Idaho-Wyoming section of the Sevier orogenic belt

Markagunt Plateau

Red Mountains

it is a haven for migrating birds