General features of the Wasatch Mountains

The Wasatch range is of great geological interest since there are exposed in it the whole series of rock formation, from the Archean to the most recent, of an aggregate thickness of over 50,000 feet. These strata have been extensively faulted and twisted, and tell of the enormous power of the dynamical forces that have been at work. The western face, moreover, has been the sheet on which Lake Bonneville has by means of terraces recorded its history.