Utah GeologyPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.34191/ug-2-1_1
M. Picard, David W. Anderson
{"title":"Paleocurrent Analysis and Orientation of Sandstone Bodies in the Duchesne River Formation (Eocene-Oligocene?), Northern Uinta Basin, Northeastern Utah","authors":"M. Picard, David W. Anderson","doi":"10.34191/ug-2-1_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-2-1_1","url":null,"abstract":"Paleocurrent reconstruction, based on measurements of medium-scale trough cross-stratification, indicates generally southward flow directions throughout the northern Uinta Basin during Duchesnean time. In contrast, measurements from the Upper Myton Member of the Uinta Formation indicate that streams flowed westward across the Uinta Basin during late Uintan time.","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":"129877594","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/ofr-14
J. Whelan, C. Petersen
{"title":"Bonneville Salt Flats: A Possible Geothermal Area?","authors":"J. Whelan, C. Petersen","doi":"10.34191/ofr-14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ofr-14","url":null,"abstract":"In his paper on the hydrogeology of the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, L. J. Turk (1973) noted indications of an abnormally high geothermal gradient in several brackish water wells, several deep brine wells, and two warm springs in the Bonneville Salt Flats area. From Turk's data, Whelan noted both sets of wells are on essentially north-south lines and that water and brine temperatures are consistently higher to the south. In the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey's program of developing and publishing data on potential geothermal areas, it was considered appropriate to expand on the data furnished by Turk.","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":"133410302","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_17
C. F. Caskey, R. Shuey
{"title":"Mid-Tertiary Volcanic Stratigraphy, Sevier-Cove Fort Area, Central Utah","authors":"C. F. Caskey, R. Shuey","doi":"10.34191/ug-2-1_17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-2-1_17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"29 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":"115583539","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-5-2-125
James L. Baer, J. Rigby
{"title":"Geology of Crystal Geyser and environmental implications of its effluent, Grand County, Utah","authors":"James L. Baer, J. Rigby","doi":"10.34191/ug-5-2-125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-5-2-125","url":null,"abstract":"A geologic study was done in conjunction with an environmental impact investigation of the Crystal Geyser, 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) southeast of the community of Green River, Utah. Periodic eruptions of salt-laden waters from the geyser flow into the Green River and provide a source of salts into the Colorado River drainage system. Eruptions average 120 cubic meters (0.1 acre feet) of CO2 charged water with abundant Na, Ca, K. and Mg salts. The mineral laden waters form tufa deposits along a nearly 2 kilometer (1.3 miles) exposure that is situated along and controlled by the Little Grand Wash Fault. Three distinctive levels of tufa deposits indicate that the mineral-laden springs have been active along the fault for several hundred thousand years. Several methods considered to control the salt laden effluent were rejected as either impractical or too expensive.","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"38 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":"124909876","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_95
C. B. Hunt
{"title":"Around the Henry Mountains with Charlie Hanks","authors":"C. B. Hunt","doi":"10.34191/ug-4-2_95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-4-2_95","url":null,"abstract":"It was my good fortune in 1935 to be assigned chief of a U. S. Geological Survey field party studying and mapping the geology of the Henry Mountains in Utah. Geologically the area is of great interest because of the classic work done in 1876 by G. K. Gilbert for the Powell Survey. In the 1930's the area still was frontier-a long distance from railroads, paved roads, telephones, stores, or medical services. It was the heart of an area the size of New York State without a railroad, and a third of that area without any kind of road. This was not Marlboro country; it was Bull Durham country. The geological work had to be done by pack train ; it was about the last of the big packtrain surveys in the west - the end of an era. It was my good fortune also to obtain the services of a veteran horseman who knew that country, Charles R. Hanks of Green River, Utah. Charlie served as packer during each of my five field seasons in the area. He had played a leading role in the history of the area; the town of Hanksville was named for his father when a post office was established there in 1885. Charlie, an old time cow puncher, had spent more hours in saddles than he had in chairs, and he had slept more nights on the ground under the stars than he had in bed under a roof. Most of his meals had been before an open fire on the range. He knew that country , both its good features and its hazards. He knew and understood horses and mules and knew how to travel and live comfortably in the desert and the mountains. And he learned about geologists.","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"10 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":"115879991","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_97
Anne Kramer Loring
{"title":"Distribution in Time and Space of Late Phanerozoic Normal Faulting in Nevada and Utah","authors":"Anne Kramer Loring","doi":"10.34191/ug-3-2_97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34191/ug-3-2_97","url":null,"abstract":"To understand the timing of extensional deformation which has occurred in the Great Basin since the close of the Sevier orogeny, a compilation of normal fault ages was made for Nevada and western Utah. Available literature indicates that normal faulting occurred there on a regional scale in the Late Mesozoic and Early and Middle Tertiary as well as in the Late Tertiary and Quaternary. There is no apparent spatial pattern in the age of initial normal faulting in Nevada and Utah; apparent areal differences in the intensity of fault development for a given time period may be real or a function of missing stratigraphic units needed to define properly the ages of faulting. Although Late Tertiary and Quaternary normal faults would probably be classified as basinrange faults by most workers, a question remains as to the nature of the Late Mesozoic and Early and Middle Tertiary normal faults. They could represent initial basin-range type extension, or they could represent a distinct episode of extension between the Sevier and \"BasinRange\" orogenies.","PeriodicalId":398645,"journal":{"name":"Utah Geology","volume":"23 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":"126496784","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}