Crouse Creek Gravel Deposit

Occurrence in Daggett 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10090820
MRDS ID D006241
Record type Site
Current site name Crouse Creek Gravel Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -109.07849, 40.83163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position S SIDE GREEN RIVER, 1/2 MILE S OF CROUSE CR.-GREEN R. CONF

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Daggett(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Swallow Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Dutch John(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vernal(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Green-Flaming Gorge Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Upper Green(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Divide-Upper Green(hydrologic subregion)

Upper Colorado(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management UT)

Bureau of Land Management UT BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Daggett

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 001N 025E 10,11,15 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • PARTS OF ABOVE SECTIONS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore
Quartzite Ore
Sandstone Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -109.07849, 40.83163

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Uinta Uplift

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET WEDGE
    Length 2816.28M
    Width 2011.63M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mouth Of Canyon

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Crouse Canyon Area

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • NO DEVELOPMENT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RITZMA, H.R., 1959, GEOLOGIC ATLAS OF UTAH, DAGGETT CO.: UTAH GEOL. AND MINERAL SURVEY BULL. 66, 116

  • Production

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, GEOLOGIST UT. GEOL AND MINER. SUR.

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOELLING, H.H., 1980, GEOLOGIST, UT. GEOL. AND MINER SURV.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SUBANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED, POORLY SORTED EXCEPT LOCALLY, TO SMALL BOULDERS IN SIZE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1980 Doelling, Hellmut H. Bureau of Land Management

Beyond USGS

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