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Show The Salt Lake Tribune convicted a 24-year-old Logan manof pinching and biting his 1-year-old son, caus- ing,the boy to be hospitalized. Ed- ward Pedersen was charged with class,A misdemeanorchild abuse. UTAH ment that will ‘avoid future threats of union organizing in Sevier County.” County by County member of the National Labor Re- The Ist District Court jury found him guiltyof a lesser class B misde- ar meanor, indicating the injuries were, ‘‘recklessly” inflicted. Pedersen-faces up to 6 months in jail whenehe is sentenced Dec. 21 by Judge.Gordon Low. Authorities in- oo — Stephen Hunt City financial adviser Kim 8 38 the impact board will not have Hi Featured Today funds available until April 1999 just the time when Vernal needs Horsemen of America,a politically active, nonprofit national group that advocates keeping public landsopenfor riding andlivestock and the maintenanceoftrails (SFN) — Lisa Church MILLARD a moveto obtain someof the water of locating a processing plant in praposed SFNis intendedto trans- fer water from the Uinta Basin to southern Utah County and to Juab County. Duchesne County Water ConservancyDistrict has retained a water consultant to help formu- late plans for acquiring the water, says district manager Randy Cro- zier. —— Uintah Basin Standard GARFIELD and KANE ‘The Utah Divisionof State Histoty is ‘collecting stories for its Oral History Project in Garfield and Kane counties, including Bryce Valley, Long Valley, Kanab and Big:.Water. During the project, A German sausage-making com- pany has discussed the possibility Fillmore’s industrial park The company, Les Prall, saysit GRAND A-group of Moab residents is forming a chapter of Backcountry the money — The Vernal Express UTAH The Utah County Health Depart- ment and the Provo Police Depart- ment are sponsoring a candlelight vigil Dec. 9, to commemorate Utahns who have been killed by drunken drivers. ‘The ceremonywill last from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. on the west stepsofthe County Courthouse, 51 S. Universi- sausage us- ty Ave. in Provo. It will feature a rooms. The facility would not in- Greg Ekeroth, who was injuredin an aceident involving a drunken driver, and his mother, Shirley would make a specialty ing pork, beef, turkey and mushclude a slaughter operation. — Derin Phelps SEVIER Truck drivers and mechanics at BarneyTruckinginSalinavoted 61 to 4 not to join Teamsters Local 222 of Salt Lake City. A similar election is planned Mondayat Robinson Transport A Barney spokesman said the company's management intends to work at creating a work environ- longtimeresidents of the counties are ‘being interviewed so their stories.oan be preserved. — Garfield County News Impact Board loan or issue bonds Young told the City Council that portion of the Central Utah Water Project (CUP) on hold for further that originates in the county. The To payfor the projects, the city will either apply for a Community tion. DAVIS study, Duchesne County is making projects for 16 roads beginning next spring. approvedbyvotersin thelast elec- sen$,care was issued in March. Nephi Irrigation Sy: Barney and Robinson are major transportersof coal from Southern Utah Fuel Co. — The Richfield Reaper The city of Vernal plans road Joab gional Hospital. A protective order removing the child from Peder- With the Spanish Fork Canyon- Theelection was conducted bya lations Board. UINTAH vestigated in February after the child was brought to Logan Re- A’ preliminary survey of students "raculty and staff at Farmington Junior High has shown no unusuahealth patterns that couldbe assdtiated with possible contaminated soil at the school — The Associated Press DUCHESNE UTAH choir from Provo High School, 6.25%" D3 Salt Blob Formed Upheaval Dome, Geologists Say mile-wide pancake-shaped gla- cier of salt between a bout 208 million and 187 millioi rs ago zontally andthinned, probably be causerock layers once movedin underlyingsaltlayer, so the dome wardtofill the void beneath the rising, pinched-off salt blob. Th became a blob. osion over mil- lions of years removedthe salt and surrounding rock, the re- surrounded by an elevated rim searchers said. Their evidenceincludes: @ Flat rock layers were tiltedat scientists first proposed it was created by a meteorite impact Scientists sponsored by the Na- tional Aeronautics and Space Administration used seismic waves in 1995 to make pictures of the dome’s subsurface geology. They sawno buried salt dome, and concluded Upheaval Dome was the badly eroded bottom of a crater teroid slammed into Utah within A meteorite impact could tilt volume of the central mound.In stead, the moat has a much larger rocks, which then could be cov- volumethan the mound, suggest years. The researchers said that advocate and seismologist at th: ered bynew, flat rock layers. But the study found suchtilting happened repeatedly over 20 million could have beencausedbya slow ly rising salt blob, not by an inpeatedly fractured over long peri- there is no salt dome buried beneath Upheaval Dome. But they spaceof a few minutes.” “In a meteorite im pact everything happens in the term fracturing so long. indicates the saidtherocks were deformedby a ground was deformedslowly by a 2,300-foot-wide rising salt blob, Hudecsaid @ Thereare several othersigns once rose up from the Paradox Formation, an underground salt the ground was deformed gradu: layer deposited by an inland sea ally by a rising salt blob: Rocks that were folded slowly as sedi- that covered Utah about 300 mil- lion years ago ments were deposited on top of Theysaidthesalt domestarted rising about 286 million years them, faults that show signs of ago, then broke through to the groundsurface and flowed as a 2 bounded upward an instant after a meteorite impact, then the yol ods of time. salt dome that mound formed when debris re several places at Upheaval, then the past 30million years Authorsofthe newstudy agree faults along whichthe ground wa stretched dip in a wayinconsis tent with a meteorite impact Mf Upheaval Dome's central newflat layers of sediments were deposited atopthe angledlayers stantaneous meteorite impact MRocks at Upheaval were re- created when asmall cometoras- Domearestretched apart hori the Texans argued As the salt dome rose, its bot tomendwaspinchedoff from the @ Continued from D-1 The scientist who first describedit in 1927 considered it a buried salt dome. In 1938, other tionover time. @ Rocks surrounding Upheava umeof the moat should equal th ingthe extra space once wasfilled bysalt that eroded away JohnLouie, a meteorite impac University of Nevada, Reno, was unpersuaded by the newstudy noting geologists swarmed found a scrapof salt left by the salt blob. Hudec replied no on ever has found meteorite pieces The Texans acknowledg sparse and equivocal” evidence at Upheaval Domesupports th: meteorite impact theory, includ ing microscopic featuresin quart crystals, shattered rock calle: breccia and cone-shaped roc fractures typical of impact cra ters. 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