Show THE WASATCH RANGE RANCE about forty miles direct north of roosevelt is the dividing line between duchesne c heine and summit counties it is here that is located a range of mountains called the wasatch range this ra range of mountains extends north from the strawberry country in the western part of duchesne e cou county nty thence takes tak e an easterly course forming the dividing line between duchesne and summit counties and breaks in uintah county it is a well known fact that rumbling sounds have ben heard to the north and west of hero here for years which has caused much wonder and speculation all during the time of the construction st of the big strawberry project many people believed the giant powder blasts made those big noises that idea was abandoned when the project was finished and the rumbling con linued another idea presented was hat volcanic disturbances in the mountains made the noise dr I 1 F E pack geologist of the uni i hersity of utah recently delivered a lecture on the history of the wasatch mountains dr pack pointed out that the wasatch mountains constitute one of the very youngest ranges of mountains upon the earth they are indeed still in progress of building evidences of this are the recent movements which have taken place along the great fault plane forming their western face As to this fault dr pack disagrees with dr clarence king one time director of the united states geological survey in his opinion that this fault has undergone a displacement of afi feet dr pack int ed evidence to show that this figure is altogether excessive I 1 the station at the university of utah is ideally located for the study of earthy eatha quakes because of its nearess toi to the great fault plane dr pad pack insists that this section is sub eject to slight earth disturbances but not to serious ones j I 1 i |