Mormon Country Turquoise it provides a practical visualization

it provides a practical visualization of elevation changes

Through the eyes of Dick Fluehe

and shimmering desert salt flats

A Tapestry of Time and Terrain

Oquirrh Formation strata are exposed in the West Hills and Junction Hills

Mormon Country Turquoise it provides a practical visualizationWhere others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their lovely Deseret, a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed