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Show WONDERS OF UTAH GEOLOGY. The University of Utah has published pub-lished a booklet entitled "Wonders of . Utah Geology." It contains thirty or forty Illustrations which fairly startle, for no publication gotten out to advertise adver-tise famous scenic playgrounds contains con-tains pictures of natural wonders which can match those contained in the-,uuivcrsity book. Tho booklet is filled withconcise and interesting information which encourages en-courages a further study of Utah geology. geol-ogy. Among other statements is this one to the effect that "the city of Ogden can justly boast the best supply of artesian ar-tesian water of any city of similar size In the world." Of Salt Lake valley the booklet says: "Salt Lake valley extends north-south north-south immediately- at the western base of the Wasatch mountains. It comprises com-prises a great structural depression brought about through faulting. The far-famed Wasatch fault, fully 150 miles long, forms tho western face of the Wasatch mountains and the eastern east-ern boundary of the valley. "During Pleistocene times nearly the whole of -western Utah was buried be-noath be-noath the waters of a great inland sea many times larger than the present vestigial lako and more han 1000 foot deep. Far up the mountain sides this predecessor of Great Salt lake has left nearly a score of well marked terraces, the highest of which was formed just before the lako discharged its waters into the Pacific ocean. "The Wasatch mountains, right at hand, furnish evidence of recent gla-ciation, gla-ciation, as truly Alpine in nature as that of Switzerland. Even now vestiges ves-tiges of these former glaciers sometimes some-times persist throughout the year. "Perhaps no more inspiring sight can be imagined than one of Utah's glacial lakes, Indigo blue in color, crouching closely at the foot of a great granite cliff and clustered about by pines and ferns, Jeweled here and there with the wild flowers of the mountains." And all of this is just a short distance dis-tance from the business section of Ogden. Og-den. Doc3n't it make you want to climb around and study our own back yard? bo |