#uintah county

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S 300 W, Vernal, Utah.

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The Dinosaur National Monument was declared a national monument on October 4, 1915.

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Quarry Visitor Center at Dinosaur National Monument Uinta Mountains - Uintah County, Utah, USA; 1956-58

Anshen & Allen (photographs by Art Hupy)

see map | inside view | + info 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | video 1, 2

via “Informes de la Construcción: Volume 13, 128" (1961)

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The Dinosaur National Monument was declared a national monument on October 4, 1915.

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Dinosaur National Monument, UT (No. 6)

Twenty-three rock layers are exposed at the monument. These rock layers are remnants of extinct ecosystems spanning nearly a billion years, from ancient seas, to plains where dinosaurs roamed, to Sahara-like deserts that were home to tiny, early mammals.

The rock layers at Dinosaur make up one of the most complete stratigraphic columns exposed within the National Park System.

With the exception of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian, all of the geologic periods are represented in the Dinosaur area. Almost all of the rocks exposed in the area are sedimentary and range in age from Precambrian (about 1,100 million years ago) to Miocene (about 25 to 10 million year ago).

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Musket Shot Springs Scenic Overlook, UT (No. 1)

Why is This Place Named Musket Shot Springs?

For six months back in 1776, two Franciscan monks named Fray Francisco Altnasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante led a party of ten men through this part of western Colorado and eastern Utah. What they were looking for was a new route to the Spanish missions in California. As they approached the Utah border, they killed a lone bison and prepared the meat while resting for a day.

From the Diary of Father Escalante September 13, 1776

"We continued for a quarter of a league in the same direction along a well-beaten path near which, toward the south, two copious springs of the finest water rise, a musket shot apart from each other, which we named Las Fuentes de Santa Clara (meaning this is really great water).

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Strawberry Valley, UT (No. 2)

The Uinta Mountains are Laramide uplifted metasedimentary rocks deposited in an intracratonic basin in southwest Laurentia during the time of the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia. The marine and fluvial metasedimentary rocks in the core of the Uinta Mountains are of Neoproterozoic age (between about 700 million and 760 million years old) and consist primarily of quartzite, slate, and shale. These rocks comprise the Uinta Mountain Group, and reach thicknesses of 13,000 to 24,000 feet (4.0 to 7.3 km). Most of the high peaks are outcrops of the Uinta Mountain Group. Many of the peaks are ringed with bands of cliffs, rising to form broad or flat tops. The mountains are bounded to the north and south by reverse faults that meet below the range, on the north by the North Flank fault and on the south by the Uinta Basin boundary fault.

The Uinta Mountain Group, from oldest to youngest, includes Uinta Mountain undivided quartz arenite, overlain by the Moosehorn Lake, Mount Watson, Hades Peak, and Red Shale formations. The flanks of the east-west trending Uinta Mountains contain a sequence of Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata ranging from the Cambrian Lodore Formation to the Cretaceous Mancos Shale, all of which have been tilted during the uplift of the mountain range.

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The Dinosaur National Monument was declared a national monument on October 4, 1915.