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National Monument North Gravel Pit

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10088790
MRDS ID M058720
Record type Site
Current site name National Monument North Gravel Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.25793, 40.4319 (WGS84)
Elevation 1567
Relative position 4,000 FT S 20 W OF SPLIT MTN. GORGE CAMPGROUND

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Uintah(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dinosaur Quarry(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Dinosaur National Monument(National Monument)

National Monument NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Uintah

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 004S 024E 31 NE OF SW OF NE Utah

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1973)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore
Quartzite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) Curtis Fm, Entrada Ss, and Carmel Fm
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Jensen Syncline

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 209.97M
    Width 67.67M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • WELL ROUNDED, FLATTENED CLASTS; QUARTZITIC CLASTS; SIZE RANGES FROM SAND TO COBBLES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Split Mountain Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROWLEY, P.D., MCKINNEY, D.M., AND HANSEN, W.R., 1979, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE DINOSAUR QUARRY QUADRANGLE, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, USGS MAP GQ-1513.

  • Deposit

    TRIPP, BRYCE T., 1984, UGMS ON-SITE INVESTIGATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1984 Tripp, Bryce T. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey

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