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The bituminous sandstones of the Asphalt Ridge area, northeastern Utah | 1957 | bitumous sandstone; Asphalt Ridge area; stratigraphy; oil; asphalt saturation | The bituminous sandstones in the Asphalt Ridge area represent the seepage of millions of barrels of oil. The asphalt sands herein described lie 3 to 4 miles west and south of the town of Vernal, Utah. The deposits were mentioned in an early report by Eldridge (1901), who visited the deposits but did... |
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Depositional environments of oil shale in the Green River Formation, Douglas Creek Arch, Colorado and Utah | 1985 | depositional environments; oil shale; Green River Formation; Douglas Creek Arch; stratigraphy | Douglas Creek arch in western Colorado and eastern Utah separates the Uinta and Piceance Creek basins. During deposition of the lower part of the Eocene Green River Formation, the arch provided a physical barrier dividing ancient Lake Uinta into two segments. As the lake expanded, the arch became a ... |
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Geology of Circle Cliffs Anticline | 1954 | geology; Circle Cliffs Anticline; stratigraphy; physiography | Circle Cliffs anticline occupies an area, approximately fifteen miles wide, which extends in a northnorthwest direction from Kane County on the south through east-central Garfield County to the Wayne County line. Its axis lies approximately 25 miles east of Boulder, Utah. Hall's Creek, located at th... |
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Geology of the bituminous sandstone deposits near Sunnyside, Carbon County, Utah | 1956 | geology; bituminous sandstone deposits; Sunnyside; stratigraphy; Wasatch formation; Green River formation; bitumen extraction | The bituminous sandstone deposits near Sunnyside, Carbon County, Utah, the largest known in the United States, were examined by the writers when employed by the Geological Survey, U. S. Department of the In- terior, as a collateral part of an investigation of sources of petroleum products. The ... |
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Lithofacies and related hydrocarbon accumulations in Tertiary strata of the western and central Uinta Basin, Utah | 1975 | lithofacies; hydrocarbon accumulations; Tertiary strata; Uinta Basin; stratigraphy | Strata of Tertiary age in the Uinta Basin were deposited in an internally drained depression. They can be divided into (1) a central core of organic-rich open lacustrine claystone and mud-supported carbonate surrounded by (2) marginal lacustrine sandstone, claystone and mud- and grain-supported carb... |
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Stratigraphy (Sunnyside and Cottonwood-Jack Canyon tar sand deposits) | 1984-05-10 | stratigraphy; tar sand deposits; supplement report | During the earliest 40% of Tertiary time, from about 65 to 40 million years ago, much of the Uinta Basin of northeast Utah was occupied by a large lake termed Lake Uinta. For most of its existence, this lake was a shallow body of fresh or slightly brackish water. Its remarkable, 15 million-year hist... |
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Stratigraphy and origin of the Moenkopi Formation (Triassic) of southeastern Utah | 1973-01 | Moenkopi Formation; stratigraphy; regional stratigraphy of southeastern Utah | In southeastern Utah, the Triassic Moenkopi Formation is composed mainly of red and yellowish-gray siltstone, sandstone, mudstone, and limestone. Continuity of individual units is one of the characteristics of this formation and provides a basic for regional correlation. For the purpose of this stud... |
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Surface tar-sand deposits in California | 1987 | surface tar-sand deposits; tar sand; surface tar sand; California; oil seeps; stratigraphy; tar sand deposit structure | Tar sand deposits and oil seeps have been known in California for more than a century and were used in the exploration for many of California's largest oil fields. Sixty deposits visited by this writer yielded 24 deposits totaling 5.27 billion barrels of oil in place and another 36 estimated at 1-2 ... |
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Tract summary report, Golden Corral combined hydrocarbon tract, Wayne County, Utah | 1982-10-06 | tract summary report; hydrocarbon tract; stratigraphy; structural geology; tar sand deposits; bitumen impregnated rock; bitumen |
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