Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-5-1_33
Galen Haugh
{"title":"Preliminary Geologic Map of the Wildcat Creek Area, Eastern Beaver County, Utah","authors":"Galen Haugh","doi":"10.34191/ug-5-1_33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-5-1_33","url":null,"abstract":"Although the area around Wildcat Creek in eastern Beaver County is shown on the Geologic Map of the State of Utah (Hintze, 1963) to be comprised of Tertiary Sevier River Formation, field investigation has revealed a variety of rock types, mostly igneous. In view of the geothermal potential near Cove Fort and Sulphurdale to the northeast, a geologic map correcting this discrepancy would be of vital interest to companies exploring the geothermal potential of the area. A preliminary geologic map of the Wildcat Creek area (figure 1) was made in August, 197 6, using aerial photos at a scale of 1: 36,500. The mapped area lies between the Mineral Mountains and Interstate 15 and encompasses about 14 x 23 km (8 x 14 miles). It is dominated by a series of north trending ridges and washes, influenced by Basin and Range block faulting, and by a line of silicic lava domes","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125797597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-1-1_1
D. McMillian
{"title":"The Relicted Lands Case","authors":"D. McMillian","doi":"10.34191/ug-1-1_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-1-1_1","url":null,"abstract":"In February, 1974, Charles Fahy, a Senior Circuit Judge, concluded that the United States of America could not assert any claim against the state of Utah to the 325,000 acres of land surrounding the Great Salt Lake exposed between January 4, 1896, when the lake stood at 4,201 feet above sea level and June 15, 1967, when the lake level had receded to 4,195 feet above sea level. Judge Fahy, was appointed Special Master by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Utah vs United States (406 US 484) after the original Special Master, Judge J. Cullen Ganey, died. By coincidence, within a few weeks after Fahy's decision, the lake had risen to the 4,201 foot level. Importance of the contested shorelands became obvious during the 1960's. Development of mineral resources contained in the lake brines was held up because clear title to land needed for construction of evaporation ponds and refining plants could not be obtained. As a result, Congress passed an act on June 3, 1966, requiring the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim to the state of Utah all United States interest in lands lying below the meander line of the Great Salt Lake excepting the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the Weber Basin federal reclamation project. To effect this, Congress directed the Secretary to complete, within six months, \"the public land survey around the Great Salt Lake in the state of Utah by closing the meander line of that lake, following as accurately as possible the mean high water mark of the Great Salt Lake used in fixing the meander line on either side of the unsurveyed area\".","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133600911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-4-2_113
H. C. Willett
{"title":"The Prediction of Great Salt Lake Levels on the Basis of Recent Solar - Climatic Cycles","authors":"H. C. Willett","doi":"10.34191/ug-4-2_113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-4-2_113","url":null,"abstract":"The major glacial-interglacial cycles are considered very briefly as to probable cause and the implications of such cause as to their future trend and its effect on the future levels of Great Salt Lake. The recent solar-climatic cycles since the 14th century, and in more detail since the Maunder Sunspot minimum, are considered from the point of view of their predicted extrapolation into the decades and the centuries immediately ahead of us. Fluctuations of level of three terminal lakes, Great Salt Lake, Utah; Devils Lake, North Dakota; and, very spottily, the Caspian Sea, are examined from the point of view of their relationship to the solar climatic cycles. These relationships are applied accordingly to the prediction of Great Salt Lake water levels for the decades and centuries immediately ahead.","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131618052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-5-1_1
J. Stacey, R. Zartman
{"title":"Lead and Strontium Isotopic Study of Igneous Rocks and Ores, Gold Hill District, Utah","authors":"J. Stacey, R. Zartman","doi":"10.34191/ug-5-1_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-5-1_1","url":null,"abstract":"A multistage model is presented to account for the different lead isotopic compositons of the northern and southern parts of the Gold Hill stock. The stock was found actually to be two bodies of different ages - Oligocene in the north (38 m. y.) and Jurassic in the south (152 m.y.). Initial 87 Sri 86 Sr ratios computed from measurements made on the intrusive rocks are 0.715 ± 0.001 for the north and 0.709 ± 0.001 for the south. Lead in the northern intrusion at Gold Hill and 100 km eastwards in the Oquirrh Mountains region is shown by the model to have originated in an Archean upper crustal environment (determined 11 =238U1204Pb ;::;::: 12) from 2.7 b.y. to 1.65 b.y. ago. Subsequently, this lead was incorporated in 1.65 b.y. lower crust and subjected to granulite or higher rank metamorphism (determined 11 ;::;::: 4 to 7), and remained there until being remobilized in the Oligocene by plutonic activity. The ore and feldspar lead in the southern intrusion at Gold Hill, however, seems to have remained in upper crustal environments (11 ;::;::: 12) continuously since 2.7 b.y. ago (e.g., there was no high rank metamorphism of this material in the Precambrian) until being remobilized in Jurassic time. By implication, this must apply to much of the miogeosynclinal material of similar lead isotopic composition found westwards in Nevada.","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121248346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-2-2_133
H. Ritzma
{"title":"New Magnetic Declination Values for Utah","authors":"H. Ritzma","doi":"10.34191/ug-2-2_133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-2-2_133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125898159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-4-2_105
J. Rigby, L. Hintze
{"title":"Early Middle Ordovician Corals from Western Utah","authors":"J. Rigby, L. Hintze","doi":"10.34191/ug-4-2_105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-4-2_105","url":null,"abstract":"Two species from western Utah are among the oldest known corals from North America. The older of the two, Lichenaria simplex (?) (Bassler) is cerioid with small corallites that lack both septae and, tabulae. It is described from two small specimens from the Lehman Formation of the Ibex area where it occurs in the Whiterockian Pseudoolenoides acicauda trilobite zone (Zone N). The younger species, Eofletcheria utahia n. sp. ranges from cerioid and phaceloid to dendroid, lacks septae, but has well defined complete tabulae. It seems likely that E. utahia has been identified in faunal listings from western U.S. Middle Ordovician occurrences both as Lichenaria and as Eofletcheria depending on the portion of the colony that was examined. Eofletcheria utahia is the most common fossil in the Crystal Peak Dolomite in western Utah. It occurs there with the brachiopods Kirkina millardensis Salmon and Orthambonites perplexus Ross in Zone 0 of Hintze. Conodonts from zone o indicate that it is Chazyan","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124211317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-2-1_75
M. crittenden, Z. Peterman
{"title":"Provisional Rb/Sr Age of the Precambrian Uinta Mountain Group, Northeastern Utah","authors":"M. crittenden, Z. Peterman","doi":"10.34191/ug-2-1_75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-2-1_75","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123337573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-3-2_71
T. A. Ryer
{"title":"Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the Coalville and Rockport Areas, Utah","authors":"T. A. Ryer","doi":"10.34191/ug-3-2_71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-3-2_71","url":null,"abstract":"Cretaceous strata exposed in the Coalville and Rockport areas record the deposition and accumulation of terrigenous clastic sediments in alluvial-fan, fluvial, marginal-marine, and nearshore and offshore-marine environments. Marine sediments were deposited in the Coalville and Rockport areas during the Aspen-Mowry, Greenhorn, and Niobrara marine invasions of north-central Utah. Biostratigraphic control in the upper part of the Frontier Formation in the Coalville area is adequate, and the age of this part of the section has been accurately recognized in recent studies. Determining the age of the Aspen Shale and the lower part of the Frontier Formation and, more specifically, the position of the Lower Cretaceous-Upper Cretaceous boundary in north-central Utah has been severely hampered by the paucity of open-marine taxa in the deposits of the Aspen-Mowry marine invasion. Evidence presented here indicates that the Lower Cretaceous Upper Cretaceous boundary should be placed near the middle of the nonmarine Chalk Creek Member of the Frontier Formation, 400 to 500 meters higher than has been suggested previously","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123359787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-5-1_27
P. L. Tayler, Lynn A. Hutchinson, Melvin K. Muir
{"title":"Manganese, Molybdenum and Selenium in the Great Salt Lake","authors":"P. L. Tayler, Lynn A. Hutchinson, Melvin K. Muir","doi":"10.34191/ug-5-1_27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-5-1_27","url":null,"abstract":"The behavior of manganese, molybdenum and selenium in the Great Salt Lake was investigated. These elements occur in inflowing streams, both from natural and industrial origins. The brines and sediments of the Great Salt Lake were sampled and analyzed to determine the disposition of the elements in the lake. It was found that manganese, molybdenum and selenium are not concentrating in the brines as are other soluble salts but are being precipitated into the sediments.","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122657015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}