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A second example of sedimentation processes is from my home town in Cedar City, Utah. This project was done because of concerns about future water supplies for the area, and is pulled from a presentation prepared for the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District.3.166 The reason this example is included is to demonstrate similar geological processes occur in the mountains as occur offshore.
distinctly remember the weekend I learned about these mountain geological processes in the middle of July of 1967. I had been in Northern Utah for a Board Meeting of the Utah Junior Hereford Association with an Uncle. When we got back to the house on Saturday, there were dozens of cars and mud everywhere. There had been a flash flood off of Fiddler's Mountain, and the flood waters had spread out across the alluvial fan at the base of Fiddler's Canyon and put 8 feet of water and mud in our basement. There is a not a better way to learn about geological processes than to pump water out of your basement, to haul out bucket after bucket after bucket of mud out, and to spend hours cleaning mud out of rifles, Indian pots, and your chemistry set.
In 1967 my parents were not interested in religion, and I had not found Christ nor recognized the important role faith would end up playing in my life. The words were not said, and yet the strong LDS culture of the area implied there must be some problems in our home for us to be punished like this. After all, we lived in the only house in Cedar Valley to have the basement filled up with mud from this storm. Looking back over 40 years I better recognize issues we faced as a family. Non-involvement in the religious activities of the community was one fact I personally consider was an issue. There certainly is no guarantee our house would have been protected from these flood waters had we been living the gospel. And yet it is possible to guarantee the handling of trials associated with the flood would have been much smoother with more of a regular practicing Christian ethic in our home.
Flash floods roaring down Cedar Canyon and Fiddler's Canyon have been laying down sedimentary layers since the mountains were formed by the dropping of the down-thrown side of the Hurricane Fault. Figure 54 shows cross-sections, maps, and 3-D visualizations of data from 143 water wells in Cedar Valley. The same type of layering can be recognized in these displays as was derived from the seismic data from offshore Mozambique.
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