Faster access than browser!
31 relations: Anticline, Cambrian, Camping, Causeway, Cycling infrastructure, Desert, Devonian, Dirt road, Dolomite, Erda, Utah, Fault (geology), Fault block, Great Salt Lake, Howard Stansbury, Island, Limestone, Mississippian (geology), Paleozoic, Petroglyph, Precambrian, Precipitation, Quartzite, Shale, Sheep, Stratum, Strike and dip, Tooele County, Utah, Transform fault, Utah, Water, Winter.
Anticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Anticline · See more »
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Cambrian · See more »
Camping
Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter, such as a tent.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Camping · See more »
Causeway
In modern usage, a causeway is a road or railway on top of an embankment usually across a broad body of water or wetland.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Causeway · See more »
Cycling infrastructure
Cycling infrastructure refers to all infrastructure which may be used by cyclists.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Cycling infrastructure · See more »
Desert
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Desert · See more »
Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Devonian · See more »
Dirt road
A dirt road or track is a type of unpaved road made from the native material of the land surface through which it passes, known to highway engineers as subgrade material.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Dirt road · See more »
Dolomite
Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Dolomite · See more »
Erda, Utah
Erda is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tooele County, Utah, United States, located just south of Stansbury Park and just north of the county seat of Tooele.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Erda, Utah · See more »
Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Fault (geology) · See more »
Fault block
Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in the Earth's crust.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Fault block · See more »
Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Great Salt Lake · See more »
Howard Stansbury
Howard Stansbury (February 8, 1806 – April 17, 1863) was a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Howard Stansbury · See more »
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Island · See more »
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Limestone · See more »
Mississippian (geology)
The Mississippian (also known as Lower Carboniferous or Early Carboniferous) is a subperiod in the geologic timescale or a subsystem of the geologic record.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Mississippian (geology) · See more »
Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Paleozoic · See more »
Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Petroglyph · See more »
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pЄ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Precambrian · See more »
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Precipitation · See more »
Quartzite
Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Quartzite · See more »
Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock composed of mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Shale · See more »
Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Sheep · See more »
Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Stratum · See more »
Strike and dip
Strike and dip refer to the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Strike and dip · See more »
Tooele County, Utah
Tooele County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Tooele County, Utah · See more »
Transform fault
A transform fault or transform boundary is a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Transform fault · See more »
Utah
Utah is a state in the western United States.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Utah · See more »
Water
Water is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance that is the main constituent of Earth's streams, lakes, and oceans, and the fluids of most living organisms.
New!!: Stansbury Island and Water · See more »
Winter
Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate zones (winter does not occur in the tropical zone).
New!!: Stansbury Island and Winter · See more »
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stansbury_Island
