scholarly journals Hydrology of coal-resource areas in the southern Wasatch Plateau, central Utah

1982 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Wasatch Plateau ◽  
Coal Resource ◽  
Plateau Central

Controls on large‐scale patterns of fluvial sandbody distribution in alluvial to coastal plain strata: Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Central Utah, USA

Sedimentology ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 2226-2258 ◽  
Author(s):  
GARY J. HAMPSON ◽  
M. ROYHAN GANI ◽  
HIRANYA SAHOO ◽  
ANDREAS RITTERSBACHER ◽  
NAWAZISH IRFAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Wasatch Plateau ◽  
Plateau Central

The Columbian mammoth, Mammuthus columbi, from the Wasatch Mountains of central Utah

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Gillette ◽  
David B. Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Vertebral Column ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
Wasatch Mountains ◽  
Environmental Setting ◽  
Wasatch Plateau ◽  
Plateau Central ◽  
Late Paleoindian ◽  
Lake Deposits ◽  
Mammut Americanum

A nearly complete and well-preserved skeleton of the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) and a cranial fragment of a short-faced bear (Arctodus simus) were recovered from fossil lake deposits at 2,740 m, near the crest of the Wasatch Plateau, central Utah. The mammoth bones are reliably dated to between 11,500 and 9,500 yr B.P. and may be associated with a late Paleoindian occupation at the site. The mammoth and bear are part of a high elevation Huntington Canyon megafauna including mastodon (Mammut americanum), horse (Equus sp.), and bison (Bison sp.). The mammoth was an old bull with considerable pathology in the vertebral column, ribs, and legs. Pollen, plant macrofossils, insects, and dung associated with the mammoth suggest this megafauna occupied an essentially modern environmental setting after deglaciation of the Wasatch plateau.

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