Petrology of Lake Bonneville Gravels Salt Lake County, Utah

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Title Petrology of Lake Bonneville Gravels Salt Lake County, Utah
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Mines & Earth Sciences
Department Geology & Geophysics
Author Vlam, Heber Adolf Arien
Date 1963-05
Description A study of sand and gravel deposits associated with Pleistocene Lake Bonneville was made from October 1961 to July 1962 in lower Jordan Valley, Salt Lake County, Utah. The sand and gravel deposits were mapped, and existing and potential reserves of sand and gravel were estimated. Pebble counts were taken to determine the mineralogical composition and geologic origin of the different deposits. Representative samples of the deposits were tested in the laboratory for grading, liquid-limit and plasticity index, absorption, optimum moisture and dry density, and abrasion. The sand and gravel deposits of lower Jordan Valley are derived almost entirely from the rocks that make up the mountains surrounding the valley and includes (1) Deposits associated with the Alpine, Provo, and post- Provo stages of Lake Bonneville; (2) stream terraces, formed by streams breaching and redepositing the shore gravels of the lake; (3) sand dunes associated with some of the Provo spits; and (4) mud-rock flow deposits and alluvial fans.
Type Text; Image
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Petrology; Utah; Salt Lake County; Bonneville; Thesis and dissertation georeferencing project
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Science
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of Petrology of Lake Bonneville Gravels Salt Lake County, Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections, QE3.5 1963 .V5
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