Lookout Pass

Occurrence in Tooele county in Utah, United States with commodity Clay
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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10091712
MRDS ID DC15286
Record type Site
Current site name Lookout Pass

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -112.56748, 40.11716 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position SOUTH OF ROAD ON THE WEST SIDE OF LOOKOUT PASS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tooele(county)

Utah(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lookout Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Rush Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tooele(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Skull Valley(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(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 Tooele

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Salt Lake 008S 006W 18 Utah

Comments on the location information

  • SW 1/4 SECT. 18

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Clay Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -112.56748, 40.11716

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip LOW NE
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DARK GRAY TO BLACK, CARBONACEOUS SHALES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VAN SANT,J.N., 1964, REFRACTORY CLAY DEPOSITS OF UTAH: USBM INF. CIRC. 8213.

  • Deposit

    USBM ACCESS ROAD REPT

  • Deposit

    USBM MIN. YEARBOOK 1942

  • Deposit

    CONSV. COMP. DATE, 03-24-1958

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1979 Unknown Conservation Division, USGS (no longer exists)

Beyond USGS

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