Where Dinosaurs Roamed: Lost Worlds of Utah's Grand Staircase Geologic Hazards Geological characterization of the Nugget

Geological characterization of the Nugget Sandstone

Fitzgerald

synorogenic

Mount Wallace

and mineral resources

Where Dinosaurs Roamed: Lost Worlds of Utah's Grand Staircase Geologic Hazards Geological characterization of the Nuggetby Christa Sadler Southern Utahs Grand Staircase region is one of the best places in the world to study the period near the end of the Age of Dinosaursa time called the Late Cretaceous. In a relatively short period (geologically speaking!) of about 25 million years, southern Utah was at times covered with an ocean teeming with life, swampy shorelines, and massive rivers draining a huge mountain range in the west. The diversity of plant and animal life