Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20042

Occurrence in Sanpete 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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10015515
MRDS ID DB01345
Record type Site
Current site name Utah Dept. Highways Pit #20042

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -111.6616, 39.25413 (WGS84)
Elevation 1655
Relative position 1.4 MILES SW MANTI LIBRARY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sanpete(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manti(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Manti(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Price(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Pitch(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Utah Sanpete

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 018S 002E 14 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SECTION SUBDIVISION: NW 1/4 NW 1/4 NE 1/4 SEC. 14

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sand and Gravel, Construction Primary

Analytical data

Result SIEVE ANALYSIS: 100 % ON 1 IN., 37.8 % ON NO. 4
Result LIQUID LIMIT: 17.2
Result PLASTICITY INDEX: NP
Result SWELL: 0.020
Result AASHO CLASS: A-1-A
Result ABR 500 REV: 293

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) -111.6616, 39.25413

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Normal Fault Valley
Type of structure Local
Structure description Normal Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form WEDGE
    Thickness 5.49M
    Length 218.72M
    Width 182.88M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 5.49M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Channels

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hal Lowry

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Analytical Data

    SRC.REF: UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966

  • Deposit

    UTAH DEPT. HIGHWAYS, 1966 , MATERIALS INVENTORY, SANPETE AND SEVIER COUNTIES

  • Reserve-Resource

    DOLLAR, R. S., 1978

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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