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Factors that effect breast-feeding in women who access Wic clinics in southern Utah
Breast-feeding has many advantages: transfer of immune properties that protect against infection, decreased allergy incidence, promotion of brain development, and enhanced bonding between mother and child; The purpose of this study was identification of factors that influence a woman's decision to …
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A Study of Habitat Variables Associated with Northern Goshawk Nest Site Activity on the Three National Forests in Southern Utah
… (MIS) on all of the six national forests in Utah. This status requires annual monitoring to track goshawk numbers and to address any activities on the forests that may affect nest site activity. Findings from the annual nesting data showed that some territories have been more active than …
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Stratigraphy, Petrology, Diagenesis, Paleontology, and Depositional Environments of the Harrisburg Member of the Kaibab Formation in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah
<p>The Kaibab Formation has two members, the Fossil Mountain Member below and the Harrisburg Member above. They were deposited in shallow-marine shelf to restricted coastal settings. Stratigraphically above are the Rock Canyon Conglomerate and the Moenkopi Formation; consisting of the Timpoweap and …
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The Sequence Stratigraphic Context of Mixed Basin Margin Evaporites in the Harrisburg Member of the Permian Kaibab Formation, Northern Arizona and Southern Utah
… during the middle Permian in northern Arizona, southern Utah, and eastern Nevada. It consists of the Fossil Mountain Member deposited in open-marine conditions and the overlying Harrisburg Member deposited in restricted conditions. The Harrisburg Member includes facies and depositional …
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Excavation and interpretation: 42Ws126, the Watchman Site, Zion National Park, Utah
… a Virgin Anasazi site in Zion National Park, Utah, were conducted for three weeks in the summer of 2000 by archaeologists from the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada, along with high school students and teachers from Nevada and southern Utah as part of a public outreach program. …
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Geometry and construction history of a complex intrusive center in the shallow crust, Mount Pennell, Henry Mountains, Utah
… intrusive center in the Henry Mountains of southern Utah. Recent field work on the eastern flank of Mount Pennell reveals evidence of construction of a primary laccolith and subsidiary intrusions from multiple, discernable pulses of magma. Igneous rock textures and compositions at Mount …
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The Complex Ways Religion and Place Inform Climate Belief: Lessons from the Global Latter-day Saint (Mormon) Community
… across vast distances. These field sites were: Southern Utah; Savai’i, Samoa; and London, England. In each case, I asked about the participants' personal experience with the changing climate, their environmental beliefs, the impact of geography on their life, and their personal ecotheology. …
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Piecing Together the Triassic/Jurassic Stratigraphy Along the South Flank of the Uinta Mountains, Northeast Utah: A Stratigraphic Analysis of the Bell Springs Member of the Nugget Sandstone
… of the position of the study area between southern Wyoming, where one set of names is used, and central/southern Utah where a different set of formation names is used. The Nugget Sandstone or Glen Canyon Sandstone of the eastern Uinta Mountains overlies the Upper Triassic Popo Agie or …
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Floodplain Risk Analysis Using Flood Probability and Annual Exceedance Probability Maps
… Creek in North Carolina and the Virgin River in southern Utah. These case studies compared a flood probability map for a certain recurrence interval with an AEP map and demonstrated the consistency of the results from these two methods. Engineers and planners can use floodplain probability maps …
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Multiscale Integration of Empirical Geologic Observations with Quantitative Structural Modeling to Constrain Late Cretaceous to Eocene Paleostress Environments on the Colorado Plateau
… Salt Valley salt wall in the Paradox Basin of southern Utah. Under Late Cretaceous-early Eocene tectonic loading, the salt wall underwent active diapirism via ductile flow because of its inability to sustain differential stress due to inherent mechanical weakness. This phenomenon generated …
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Magnetic records from latest Triassic to earliest Jurassic red beds, Utah and Arizona, and from mid-Pleistocene lake beds, New Mexico
… Lower Jurassic strata of the Moenave Formation, southern Utah and northern Arizona, were used to construct a composite magnetostratigraphy and further refine the position of the base of the Jurassic in the southwest U.S.A. The composite magnetostratigraphy provides a chronostratigraphic framework …
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High Resolution Facies & Architectural Analysis of a Tributive, Basal Terrace of a Ferron Compound Incised Valley
… of the Cretaceous Seaway. The Notom Delta, southernmost of the three complexes, is spectacularly exposed in the washes, road cuts, and cliffs of the Factory Butte region of southern Utah. Deposits associated with Sequence 1, the youngest of 6 Notom sequences, are documented along the …
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Ecology and physiology of free ranging black-tailed and Utah prairie dogs
… present a model system for the study of torpor. Utah prairie dogs (Cynomys parvidens), which are believed to hibernate continuously during winter, can be contrasted with black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), which enter torpor only during periods of environmental or physiological …
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“The Stories That We Tell”: Mormon Women, Autobiography, and the Mormon Collective Memory of Persecution as Influenced by The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
… Saints, was born in 1852 in Millcreek, Utah. Influenced not only by the original Mormon collective memory of persecution as advanced by Parley Pratt, Martha, because she grew up in St. George among those who had participated in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, was also impacted by an …
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Toiling among the Seed of Israel: A Comparison of Puritan and Mormon Missions to the Indians
… sites of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Southern Indian Mission. In my examination of the missionization attempts that took place at these two locations, I analyze a common motive and method of the two denominations for attempting to Christianize the Indians. The Puritan and Mormon …