Wasatch Range

beneath the quartzite draws attention to the ancient glaciers to the past. In conjunction with the active Wasatch Fault found at its doorstep, Rock Canyon is an important place in Utah for geologists. To begin, the mouth of the canyon features a hilly landscape with scars from landslides created from the uplifting of land by the Wasatch Fault. The fault, responsible for the creation of the Wasatch Mountains 25 million years ago, is a normal fault (Eldredge, 2014). Unlike some faults, vertical movement

Dear Dr. Davis, Our 8th grade class would love to go to the Lava Beds National Monument in California. The lava beds would be one of the best educational field trip ever. There is many history and geological stuff along this field trip. There is many fun activities to do at the lava beds. It is also located on the Oregon and California border. They lava beds have a great history and geological background. The good thing about this is it is crossing two classes, so you can learn about

will provide a better pixel distribution of the image channels and thus gives a more accurate average value of the channel which represents the average value of the channel for the whole dynamic range. The equation (6) is used to stretch the histogram of respective color channel to the whole dynamic range. Pin and Pout are the input and output pixels, respectively, and imin, imax, omin, and omax are the minimum and maximum intensity level values for the input and output images,

position of an employee’s salary relative to the salary range midpoint. The salary range includes a minimum, a midpoint and a maximum. The midpoint represents a 1.0 (100%). Comp-ratio is calculated using the employee’s salary divided by the midpoint of the salary range. If the CR is .90 (90%), the employee is to be paid 10% below the salary range midpoint. If the CR is 1.00 (100%), the employee is to be paid at the midpoint of the salary range. If the CR is 1.15 (115%), the employee

Gary Ridgway was born on February 18,1949, in Salt Lake City,Utah. He was the middle son. He had a troubled life at home. He witnessed his parents constantly arguing violently. Ridgway felt anger toward his mother and would think about killing her. Also, he was sexually attracted to her. When he was 16, he stabbed a 6 year old boy. However he survived. Ridgway joined the U.S Navy and was sent to Vietnam. He had sexual intercourse with many of the sex workers and contracted an STD. He married three

Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge If we bemoan the loss of light as the day changes to night we miss the sunset. In her memoirs Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams relates the circumstances surrounding the 1982 rise in the Great Salt Lake as well as her mother’s death from cancer. Throughout the book Williams gets so caught up in preventing her mother’s death that she risks missing the sunset of her mother’s life. However the Sevier-Fremont’s adaptability to changes in nature inspires Terry Tempest

The Brink's robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, At 3:55 pm, Brink's guards Peter Paige and Joe Trombino emerged from the mall carrying bags of money, Buck was arrested in 1985. The last person to be arrested in connection with it was Willams (Shakur), the ringleader of the robbery, in 1986, Gilbert, Weems, and Clark were the first of the Brink's robbers to go to trial, On October 6, 1983, he sentenced each defendant to three consecutive twenty-five year-to-life sentences

Technology Shaped the Rhapsody Queen’s 1975 classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is extremely influenced by the recording technology used to create its sound and enhance its musical presentation. Multi-tracking phrases and over-dubbing instruments played a key role in the creation of the piece. The piece was revolutionary for the progressive rock musical period as maximised the use of recording technology at the time. This can be seen when compared to a contemporary classics of the time, Led Zeppelin’s Stairway

Mt. Rainier The first time I saw Mt. Rainier for myself, was last summer when my boyfriend and I drove to Washington. It was the most beautiful, peaceful looking mountain I have ever seen. However, underneath it's great beauty, it hides a deadly secret. Mt. Rainier is one of the most dangerous volcanoes that we have here in the United States. One of the reasons it is so dangerous is because of it's great beauty. People enjoy looking at it, and the area that surrounds it, so they have made their

Mount Saint Helens is an active volcano that is located in the Cascade mountain range in Washington State. This volcano is considered to be one of the most active in the Cascades, and has a complex ecosystem. This volcano remained mostly dormant until May 18, 1980 where it unfortunately erupted and decimated the plant life, wildlife, and forever changed the geography of the surrounding area. Prior to the eruption of Mount Saint Helens, there was a vast ecosystem that thrived in the area surrounding