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Paunsaugunt Plateau Borrow Pit

Past Producer in Garfield 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015346
MRDS ID DB00819
Record type Site
Current site name Paunsaugunt Plateau Borrow Pit
Related records 10130386

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.11521, 37.71137 (WGS84)
Elevation 2304
Relative position 1 3/4 MILES WEST OF HENDERSON POINT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Garfield(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tropic Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Panguitch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Fork Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Garfield

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 035S 003W 33 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB.: SW 1/4 SE 1/4 SE 1/4 SEC. 33 .

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gravel Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.11521, 37.71137
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Kanab-Paunsaugunt Block Sounded By The Paunsaugunt And Sevier Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Low Amplitude Folding

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 82.02M
    Width 68.58M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Channel

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category State

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.075HA
    Overall length 30M
    Overall width 27.43M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1978 Dollar, Robert S. Bureau of Land Management

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

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