Show FAME WON BY DEPARTMENT OFt OF t GEOLOGY AT u More Than Half of Students Enrolled come ome from Outside Outside Outside Out Out- side State Stat State Leave Leave Leave Given Prof Mathews Mathew The Department of ot Geology at th the e University of or Utah la is winning nationwide nationwide nation wide recognition as evidenced by th the e fact tact that more than half bait tho the students s majoring In geology this year ear ar are e from Cram outside the state While the number number majoring majoring In geology is no now no greater than ever be before Cote this 8 s- s Is also alKo being found foun by students student Specializing I in other lines one of oC great cultural value alue From a geological standpoint th the e University Is almost ideally situated i In n Utah and the surround states state s there Is s almost unlimited opportunity for study and research b by the geologist gist For Instance In n the tho Uinta L Mountains 1 Is found the largest deposit t I of pre hIstoric animal fossils in th the e world The Museum luie of at Natural r History His His- tory tors in New York has a patty party of at me men working almost constantly taking tit the e remains of at huge huse dinosaurs from tram th the e earth and shipping them to New York Yot k where they are put together and set e et kt t up In the Museum u um In Utah also Little Zion Canyon Canon n and Cedar Breaks are arc attracting aUr people peo peo- pie from nil all world orld to admire their beauty nail antI stud study geological cal wonders Then Utah has Its famous fam fam- am ous natural bridge the great Wasatch Wasatch Was Was- atch fault and on the more moro practical side stile almost Inconceivable deposits o of ot f oil coal and iron ore are which ar are nrc e Just a awaiting the promoter with hl his s right man the geologist for de e- e Thus the student comIng to Utah t to o study alon along these them lines is Is going t to o have something offered him bv by b th the e department of Geology ecology at the sit nits sity of oC Utah that he will not be abl able to get s-et elsewhere In the tho countr country I Professor Professor- Mathews hag has Just re been sent soot away to take lake a doc doc- re-I re I tors torR degree In paleontology and up up-I up on his return will wilt take up UI his duties sl I ds In this department H He C will be gone Iono about two years and will wit I study at both Stanford University an and d the University of or Chicago Dr I. I F. F J. J Pack head of the tho depart depart- meat ment Is the author of oC f two articles article s published recently that attracted con con- attention In scientific cir clr clew cles One entitled Natural Bridging In the High Plateaus of at Utah ap- ap In n the Pan American gist gistand and the other on the rc earthquake o In the tho Bulletin of at the National Society Dr Pack Is III also writing welting a book on I c-I turn tural ecology which he expects to complete completo in the tho near future I |