Tag: Wyoming State Geological Survey
THE HARTVILLE UPLIFT -- When considering the Hartville Uplift, one may not realize how the area’s geologic resources have significantly
Bear River LARAMIE WYOMING -- The Wyoming State Geological Survey will complete its series of groundwater studies across the state
WSGS photo LARAMIE WYOMING -- Mineral investigations are among the current projects of the Wyoming State Geological Survey. Iron—Geologists Wayne
“Como Bluff is an anticline that contains shales and sandstones deposited by rivers about 180 million years ago when dinosaurs
Como Bluff, The Bone Wars By Chamois Andersen The First Fossil Hunters William Harlow Reed The story of the discovery
COMO BLUFF -- An unobtrusive ridge of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff once contained some of the world’s best-preserved
The Great Divide Basin LARAMIE WYOMING -- New research on the Lance and Fort Union formations has allowed geologists to
“Wyoming is a geologic showplace, a panorama of windswept basin floors and imposing mountains.” ~ Samual Howell Knight “Doc” LARAMIE
Meet your tour guides, Wayne Sutherland, geologist with the Wyoming State Geological Survey and Julie Francis, archeologist for the Wyoming
WSGS graphic. LARAMIE WYOMING -- The WSGS recently completed a study on the potential link between injection/disposal well activities by
WSGS photo. LARAMIE WYOMING -- The type of precipitation that falls from the sky is key to how much water
LARAMIE WYOMING -- WSGS oil and gas geologists are in the process of developing the next generation of the Oil
LARAMIE WYOMING -- The WSGS is providing important data on the state’s coal resources to a central clearinghouse for the
Rotational Landslide. Diagram by Jim Rodgers. LARAMIE WYOMING -- In Wyoming, beauty in nature abounds. But with that wild beauty
The Meade Peak Shale Member of the Phosphoria Formation hosts many of the high-grade phosphate rock beds in Wyoming. WSGS
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK -- University of Utah scientists discovered a new magma reservoir underneath Yellowstone. The reservoir of partly molten
