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Duck Creek Cinder Pit

Past Producer in Kane county in Utah, United States with commodity Volcanic Materials
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015488
MRDS ID DB01303
Record type Site
Current site name Duck Creek Cinder Pit
Related records 10300300

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.73967, 37.52526 (WGS84)
Elevation 2804
Relative position 2.2 MILES WNW OF DUCK CREEK SPRING RANGER STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kane(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Henrie Knolls(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Panguitch(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Cedar City(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Sevier(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Dixie National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Kane

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 038S 008W 09 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SEC. SUB: NE 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 09

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Volcanic Materials Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CINDERS USED AS GRAVEL

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Rock unit name Basalt Volcanoes And Flows
    Rock description Basalt Volcanoes And Flows
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.73967, 37.52526
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Markagunt Plateau Bounded By The Hurricane And Sevier Faults.
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faults, Volcanic Vents And Cones

Ore body information

  • General form CONICAL
    Thickness 30.48M
    Length 546.8M
    Width 365.76M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Cinder Cone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 0.251HA
    Overall length 75M
    Overall width 36.58M

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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