Marion Cemetery Borrow Pit

Past Producer in Summit county in Utah, United States with commodity Sand and Gravel, Construction
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10011480
MRDS ID D006385
Record type Site
Current site name Marion Cemetery Borrow Pit
Related records 10203111

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.26716, 40.6855 (WGS84)
Elevation 2006
Relative position 300 FT N OF MARION CEMETERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Summit(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kamas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salt Lake City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Weber(hydrologic unit)

Weber(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Summit

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 001S 006E 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISIONS SE 1/4 SW 1/4 SE 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PEBBLE TO BOULDER SIZE ANGULAR QUARTZITE AND CHERT ROCK IN COARSE SAND

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Rock unit name Alluvium
    Rock description Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium and colluvium

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Kamas Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION FIGURES KNOWN

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.22HA
    Overall length 102.11M
    Overall width 22.86M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UT DEPT OF HWYS, 1967, MATERIALS INVENTORY SUMMIT CO

  • Production

    JOHNSON, E.A., 1980, ON SITE INVESTIGATION: UTAH GEOL AND MIN SUR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO SORTING, MOST OF GRAVELS ARE CHERT-ANGULAR TO SEMI-ANGULAR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Johnson, Elizabeth A. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.