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1 Depositional environments of oil shale in the Green River Formation, Douglas Creek Arch, Colorado and Utah1985depositional environments; oil shale; Green River Formation; Douglas Creek Arch; stratigraphyDouglas 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 ...
2 Geology of Circle Cliffs Anticline1954geology; Circle Cliffs Anticline; stratigraphy; physiographyCircle 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...
3 Geology of the bituminous sandstone deposits near Sunnyside, Carbon County, Utah1956geology; bituminous sandstone deposits; Sunnyside; stratigraphy; Wasatch formation; Green River formation; bitumen extractionThe 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 ...
4 Lithofacies and related hydrocarbon accumulations in Tertiary strata of the western and central Uinta Basin, Utah1975lithofacies; hydrocarbon accumulations; Tertiary strata; Uinta Basin; stratigraphyStrata 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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