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Trilobites of Utah’s Wheeler Shale

The rock splits along a hairline seam, and there it is — a perfect oval outline pressed into gray...

The shale splits clean, almost too easily, like it was never meant to hold together in the first...

The stream is barely knee-deep in most places, clear enough to see every pebble on the bottom, and...

Twice a year, a gate that stays locked for months swings open, and a line of cars kicks up red...

The gravel bar looks like nothing at first, just a low stretch of dark sand and pebbles exposed...

The dirt here isn’t dirt at all, not really — it’s mullock, mounded waste rock hauled...

The wind never really stops out here. It moves across open sagebrush flats with nothing to slow it...

The creek runs fast and cold even in July, glacial melt cutting through gravel that has been...

The water in the trough runs cold and fast, and for a second the gravel in the bottom of the pan...

The creek doesn’t look like much from the road — a narrow ribbon of water cutting through...