Geology and coal resources of the Cedar Mountain quadrangle, Iron County, Utah.

Author/creator Averitt, Paul
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962.
Descriptioniv, 72 pages : illustrations, maps (1 color) diagrams, tables ; 30 cm.
Subjects
Coal--Utah. --Cedar Mountain Region.
Geology--Utah. --Cedar Mountain Region.

SeriesGeological Survey (U.S.). Professional paper ; 389
Geological Survey professional paper ; 389. ^A16492
Contents Abstract -- Introduction -- Location of area -- Purpose and scope of present work -- Previous work -- Acknowledgments -- Geography -- Topography -- Drainage and water supply -- Accessibility and routes of travel -- Stratigraphy -- Triassic system -- Moenkopi formation -- Timpoweap member -- Lower red member -- Virgin limestone member -- Middle red, Shnabkaib, and upper red members -- Chinle formation of previous reports -- Chinle formation, restricted, of present report -- Shinarump member -- Upper part of the Chinle formation, restricted -- Triassic system -- Moenave formation -- Dinosaur Canyon sandstone member -- Springdale sandstone member -- Jurassic system -- Kayenta formation -- Unnamed lower member -- Shurtz sandstone tongue of the Navajo sandstone -- Cedar City tongue of the Kayenta formation -- Jurassic and Jurassic system -- Navajo sandstone -- Temple Cap member -- Jurassic system -- Carmel formation -- Entrada sandstone -- Curtis formation -- Winsor formation -- Cretaceous system -- Dakota sandstone -- Tropic formation -- Straight Cliffs and Wahweap sandstones -- Straight Cliffs sandstone -- Wahweap sandstone -- Igneous rocks -- Older volcanic rocks -- Welded tuff deposits on the North Hills -- Kolob latite -- Basalt flows, dikes, and related cinder cones -- Basalt flows -- Basalt filling of ancient stream channels -- Thickness of flows -- Basalt dikes -- Surface structures on basalt -- Spatter cones -- Pressure ridge -- Age of basalt -- Cinder cones -- Ash -- Surficial deposits -- Abandoned stream-channel deposits on Kolob Terrace -- Abandoned gravel-covered pediment on Kolob Terrace -- Fanglomerate deposit at North Hills -- Ancestral Murie Creek -- Relation of basalt flows to fanglomerate deposit -- Age of fanglomerate deposit -- Pediment deposits in Shurtz Creek amphitheater -- Bolson deposits in Cedar Valley -- Talus and rock streams -- Landslides -- Alluvium -- Recent gullying -- Structure -- Hurricane fault zone -- Amount of displacement -- Dip of fault planes -- Age and nature of movement -- Earthquake activity -- Hurricane Cliffs -- Kanarra fold -- Direction of compression -- Age of folding -- Contortion and minor reverse faulting associated with folding -- Possible large-scale thrust faulting -- Normal faults -- Murie Creek fault -- Bear Trap fault -- Relation between Murie Creek and Bear Trap faults -- Hicks Creek fault -- Kolob Terrace -- Drainage changes -- Shurtz Creek -- Crystal Creek -- Urie Creek -- Minor features of interest -- Natural bridge in Shiver Creek -- Petrified stump in Shurtz Creek -- Coal deposits -- Upper Culver coal zone -- Sequence between Upper and Lower Culver coal zones -- Lower Culver coal zone -- Willow Creek coal zone -- Straight Cliffs coal zone -- Local coal beds -- Probable correlation with coal beds of other areas -- Rank and quality of the coal -- History of mining -- Production -- Mining methods -- Uses -- Coal reserves -- Methods of preparing estimates -- Areal extent of beds -- Distinction between measure and indicated reserves and inferred reserves -- Recoverable reserves -- Areas excluded from estimate -- Overburden -- Oil and gas possibilities -- Gypsum -- Uranium -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Subject A study of the Hurricane Cliffs and the Kolob Terrace in the southern part of the historic Cedar City coal field.
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General notePart of illustrative matter fold. in pocket.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 67-69.
Issued in other formOnline version: Averitt, Paul, 1908-. Geology and coal resources of the Cedar Mountain quadrangle, Iron County, Utah
Other titleCedar Mountain quadrangle, Utah.
LCCNgs 62000245
Govt. docs number I 19.16:389

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