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Show Utah's Scenic Variety Is Unsurpassed Says Geologist ' Ul.a,h 'has a greater variety of uxcxoeilcd scenery than any other .itue I kn;w," says Dr. Hyrum Schneider, head of Utah geology ueprrtmeot. "Our scenery is a. real octnJiiic asset which can be made to bring' to- Ut:.h tourist travel v rich will leave 'with us large sums f money each year if we advertise our natural attractions as otner states d.o.." From tr. vel and study Dr. Schnei der j as bocome iamiliar with top-.;V.a top-.;V.a l. y all over the United States. He explains that there is a close .;;laticn between scenery and geo-.c.ic;! geo-.c.ic;! features. Utah's scenic variety va-riety is due to the great variability n physiography, geoiogy and clim-a!e clim-a!e in the stale. Dr. Schneider divides the . state i .In three p lysiographic provinces. The first, the Wasatch and Uinta mountains with the valleys of the egion, contain the fine scenery produced by the complex sculpbur-.' sculpbur-.' g of ice and water. The plateau provinces of Utah boast something entirely different, examples being the scenic effects of Wayne Wonderland, Won-derland, Bryce Canyon and the Natural Bridges. The great basin province offers scenery quite different differ-ent again. In this part cf the :;t::te, extending west from the W. sritc ! fault, are great alkali des-; des-; Is ar.rl the famous salt flats. Scenery with .which few people e familiar is to be found near i Fillmore, according to Dr. Schneider. Schnei-der. Here in young lava flqs i.rnird since Bonneville times are i:e caves and formations not much different from the Craters of the Moon region of Idaho. |
