»Less than 72 hours after the launch of a reporting form to help #Utah enforce its #transgender#bathroom#ban the Utah auditor’s office says it has received nearly 4,000 complaints — and all of them appear to be “bogus.”«
"You know the toxic dust that you’re talking about? That’s my scientific research."
From October 2023. Cluster member and University of #Utah-based Kevin Perry talks about work studying the shrinking Great Salt Lake with Science Friday.
A close crop of an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago. Also, since I'm on my home computer, I slightly enhanced it using a parametric mask in Darktable to reveal a bit more detail.
Ranger Sarah with the colorful Paria Mountains. The mountains comprise various sedimentary rock layers, each representing different geological periods. These layers have been deposited over 85 million years, creating a rich tapestry of colors and textures.
— at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Ranger Sarah with another amazing view of the Rainbow Mountains. The vivid hues are attributed to the encrustation of iron oxides, manganese, cobalt, and others. These minerals have leached into the rock layers over time, staining them with shades of red, purple, yellow, and blue.
— at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
@ambivalena You nailed it. I always loath any attempt to attribute meaning to pictographs and petroglyphs. They range up to 10,000 years old, however, these are probably around 1,200 years old. Too much has changed and there's just no way to understand what the person was thinking when they drew them
@elaterite in two times in my life I’ve had opportunities to view pictographs/petroglyphs. It’s one thing seeing them in a photograph. It’s downright surreal seeing them in person, right in front of you. What a gift that you were able to find these.
"Local officials said they discovered cracks in the upper portion of Panguitch Lake Dam on Monday, when the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said that the damage was “not severe enough to warrant immediate evacuations.”
On Tuesday, the sheriff’s office announced that there was potential for dam failure and that residents should prepare for possible evacuation. The National Weather Service also issued a flash flood warning along Panguitch Creek on Tuesday night."