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Immigrants transform Utah: entering a new era of diversity | 2004-05 | Utah is generally perceived as an extremely homogeneous state whose population can trace its ancestry mostly to northern Europe. Listings for surnames like Hansen, Jensen, and Christensen do fill many pages in local telephone directories throughout the state. According to census counts, the minority... | |
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Control of geological carbon sequestration in the western United States | 2011-05 | coal; carbon dioxide; electric utilities; carbon sequestration; sequestration; geological sequestration; climate change | In the near future, the use of coal may be legally restricted due to concerns over the effects of its combustion on atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Carbon capture and geologic sequestration offer one method to reduce carbon emissions from coal and other hydrocarbon fuel. While the federal... |
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Field guide to lacustrine and related nonmarine depositional environments in tertiary rocks, Uinta Basin, Utah | 1976-11 | lacustrine environments; nonmarine depositional environments; tertiary rocks | The lower part of the Tertiary System in the Uinta Basin of northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado (fig. 1) reflects a series of very complex and variable forms of continental sedimentation in a basin of internal drainage. These complex forms represent the disruption of the Cretaceous depositio... |
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Geology and geochemistry of Santa Rosa tar sands | 1987-11-02 | Santa Rosa tar sands; tar sands; heavy oil deposits; Triassic Santa Rosa Sandstone | Heavy oil deposits 11 km (7 mi) north of the town of Santa Rosa, Guadalupe County, New Mexico, in the Triassic Santa Rosa Sandstone, were mined during the 1930s. Renewed interest in this deposit in the late 1970s so far has not resulted in exploitation because of unfavorable economics and the encroa... |
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Some possible applications of thermal recovery in Utah | 1965-11 | thermal recovery; applications of thermal recovery; oil reserves; bituminous sandstones; thermal project; bituminous oil sand | The bituminous sandstones of the Rocky Mountain region have significant reserves of oil. Production costs of the reserves must be reduced to be equal to or lower than the cost of crude oil produced by conventional methods. Three Utah deposits alone, Sunny side, Vernal (Asphalt Ridge) and Whiterocks ... |
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Heavy-oil deposit, Great Salt Lake, Utah | 1987 | heavy-oil deposit; Great Salt Lake; Neogene basins | The western portion of the Great Salt Lake contains two large Neogene basins, informally called the "North" and "South" basins. These basins are separated by an arch that trends northeast between Carrington Island and Fremont Island. Both basins are filled with Miocene, Pliocene, and Quaternary sedi... |
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Utah tar sands | 1984 | Utah tar sands; survey notes; asphalt; bitumen; tar; land slides; snow slides; petroleum; tar sand resource | The words, tar, asphalt, bitumen, pitch, and heavy oil often have been used to refer to highly viscous liquid, semi-solid, or solid, naturally occurring hydrocarbon substances. The word bitumen originated with the Romans and included all the various types of natural hydrocarbons. In its modern, comm... |
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Geology of the Mill Fork Area, Utah | 1972-12 | geology; Mill Fork area; geologic structure; Green River formation | The Mill Fork area comprises about 70 square miles of Cretaceous ( ? ) and Tertiary sediments at the northern end of the Wasatch Plateau in Utah County, Utah. Over 9000 feet of nonmarine sediments are present and belong to the North Horn, Flagstaff, and Green River formations. These sediments record... |
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Biofuels--snake oil for the twenty-first century | 2008-12-01 | Most Americans are painfully aware that our present consumption of petroleum is unsustainable. The United States has less than 5% of the world's population, but consumes 24.4% of the world's petroleum production. Only 8.5% of the world's petroleum production comes from American wells, which necessit... |
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