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Show 8 Vernal Express Wednesday, August 12, 1992 Lectures at musuem to be held during Dinosaur Days Variety is the name of the game for this year's Dinosaur Days Lecture Scries at the Utah Field House Museum. Two will highlight the geology of the Uinta Mountains, exploring issues long debated about the rare igneous and mctamorphic rocks of the area. One will feature the variety of rock art to be found in Dinosaur National Monument. Finally, a discussion about a significant signifi-cant new dinosaur discovery will be presented. These lectures will be presented at 8 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday nights at the Museum and are free to the public. Howard Ritzma, consulting geologist geolo-gist formerly with the Utah Geological Survey, during two evenings, (Wednesday and Thursday) will discuss the occurrence occur-rence of igneous and mctamorphic rocks in the Uintas. The first deals with igneous dikes of early Paleozoic age (495 million years ago) which are found intruding Prccambrian sediments in the eastern east-ern Uinta Mountains. All arc small in area, linear extend and arc generally gener-ally inconspicuous. These are the only igneous rocks in the Uinta Mountains. Assays indicates in-dicates that they would provide an extremely limited source of valuable valu-able metals. The structure of the Uintas is that of ancient sediments, moderately iron-rich, slightly metamorphosed, meta-morphosed, and seemingly lacking in valuable mineral content. Is there gold in the Uintas? Probably not. The second lecture by Ritzma will pursue the relationship of the "older" "old-er" metamorphic rocks of the Red Creek Quartzite with the "younger" sedimentary rocks of the Uinta Mountain group in the mountains north of Browns Park. Previous discussions dis-cussions have , suggested an unconformity uncon-formity (depositional break) or faulting between the two. If it is an unconformity there should be frag-ments'of frag-ments'of the older material imbedded imbed-ded in the younger. If there is a fault, there should be a brecciated (broken) zone. Neither of these seem to be the case. Ritzma proposes propos-es instead, that the Red Creek Quartzite is younger than the Uinta Mountain group. He suggests that the Red Creek Quartzite formed by the impact of one or more meteorites mete-orites which fell into the Uintah Mountain sediments.' These would have been shattered, vaporized, melted and reconstituted into the jumble of highly varied metamorphic metamor-phic rocks seen today. James A. Truesdale, archaeological archaeologi-cal consultant for Metcalf Archaeological Associates and advisor advi-sor to the Ute Tribe, will present the third lecture of the series. Previously associated with Dinosaur National Monument, Truesdale has documented many rock art sites in the area. His talk will focus on those rock art panels, their relationship to others in the Vernal area, and their cultural.affinities. The final talk of the series will highlight the discovery of the Utahraptor and a nodosaur in the Cedar Mountain formation near Moab. The speaker, Don Burge, directorcurator di-rectorcurator of the College of Bear... Continued from page 1 moving more bear traps to the area from the Book Cliffs when the bear was shot. The DWR advises that encounters with bears are rare, but usually voices, voic-es, whistles, bells and other noise are sufficient to make bears aware of your presence and frighten them away. If you encounter a black bear, make noise, yell, clap your hands, bang pots together or throw rocks to scare it away. Never approach a bear. If a bear approaches you, retreat re-treat slowly or climb a tree until it leaves, advises a DWR brochure. To prevent conflicts with bears, a clean camp with no food left out is essential. essen-tial. Black bears are naturally attracted at-tracted to human food, as well as pet food, garbage, toothpaste, sun-tan sun-tan lotion and insect rcpcUant. Hidden Treasures; to be found in the Vernal Express '1 Classified Ads V Eastern Utah Prc-history Museum, will tell the history and the importance impor-tance of the discovery. Although this site is new, another with similar dinosaurs was found years ago by Jim Jensen of Brigham Young University but went unreported. The Utahraptor is being used as the prototype pro-totype villain for Steven Spielberg's latest movie, Jurassic Park, which will be released in the fall. Burgc's talk should cap Dinosaur Days in style. For further information, contact the Utah Field House at 789-3799. "FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, WASHINGTON CONSISTENTLY SPENDS MORE MONEY THAN IT TAKES IN. OF COURSE, THE PROFES SIONAL POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON TELL US EVERY ELECTION TIME THAT THE TOUGH BUDGET DECISIONS WILL BE MADE. BUT ACTIONS ACT-IONS PROVE OTHERWISE. AND THE SPENDING CONTINUES. DESPITE THIS BLATANT DISREGARD OF SPENDING LIMITATIONS, THE ONLY THING WASHINGTON HAS LOST BUT HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE WE'RE IN TOO DEEP TO GET OUT?" Ihink about $300 billion for a minute. Oh, that's not the national na-tional debt. It's just the interest inter-est our government pays on it every year. The actual figure is so large as to be almost incomprehensible. incom-prehensible. Try $4 trillion. See the point? These dollar figures start to become meaningless mean-ingless because of their sheer size. Perhaps this is why Washington seems to pretend they're not there, continuing to spend like there's no tomorrow. Well, it is tomorrow. And the & "O-' Z. ,f-",F---'i -gmirarri inTrrr " - I METAMORPHIC ROCKS at the Brown's Park Red formation. Un jort when was they don CD) The government's deficit spending habits are way out of control. The bad news is, Congress doesn't think they need to do anything about it. SO FAR IS ITS SENSE OF REALITY. IOE CANNON national debt is definitely there. And it could bury us all soon if we don't start making positive posi-tive changes in the way we deal with it. I believe it's time for "real" cuts in government spending, not the half-hearted and largely ineffective ineffec-tive efforts that Congress usually makes. For example, if last year s budget was $10 billion, and this year's proposed budget is $12 billion, bil-lion, then, in the lingo of Washington D.C., revising the proposed budget of $12 billion to Iiul lot h tin' l '.Mini Subscribers win Lagoon tickets Three subscribers to the Vernal Express have been awarded all-day Lagoon tickets for two. This week the winners were Charles L. Greenwood, Blaine Shewer and Teresa Brown. Last week winners were Linda R. Lacayo, Rod Anderson and Marcia Larson. Winners can pickup their prizes at the Vernal Express office, 54 N. Vernal Ave. Creek quartzite unate , ninaion sees t See red. $11 billion is claimed as a $1 bil- growth to create a larger tax lion cut in spending. Call it a one- base so that we can actually de-step-forward, two-steps-back crease the national debt, approach to deficit reduction. We need deficit reduction The cuts I am talking about policies that will create jobs are legitimate ones, where a $10 and legitimately stimulate the billion budget becomes a $9 bil- economy, lion budget. 1 he truth is there is no federal agency that could not oper- ate on less money than it currently cur-rently spends. And spending less money each year will have benefits that extend far beyond a reduction in the ' deficit. With a renewed confidence confi-dence in the government's ability to handle the deficit, investment will increase dramatically. dra-matically. A healthy economy econo-my will also improve consumer con-sumer confidence, resulting in greater spending and a much-needed jolt for the economy all around. And we definitely can't re-duce re-duce the deficit by raising taxes. This will only serve to weaken the economy and cause the tax base to shrink. Instead, we must reduce government spending so that tne debt cannot grow. We need strong economic 3 e 3 l G3 CD for Senate hi l"t N'li.ili' I !uiMinitliv Vernal City Secret Witness Program 789-8888 In brief, I believe we need to do the following: 2. Enact an amendment that would force Congress to submit a balanced budget without raising taxes; 2. Make legitimate legit-imate cuts in government spending across the board; and 3.1dentify and actively reduce government waste in all federal agencies and programs. You see, solving the deficit problem isn't a black and white issue; it's a black and red issue. And the sooner we can get our finances fi-nances out of the red and into the black, the sooner we can restore faith in our economy, and in our future as a country as well. For an outline of my position po-sition on the deficit, or any of the major issues, call 2-800-6-AGENDA. |