Potential oil-prone areas in the Cane Creek shale play, Paradox Basin, Utah, identified by epifluorescence microscope techniques

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Epifluorescence Microscope

Tracking dinosaurs in BLM canyon country, Utah

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 67-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
ReBecca K. Hunt-Foster ◽  
Martin G. Lockley ◽  
Andrew R.C. Milner ◽  
John R. Foster ◽  
Neffra A. Matthews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Salt Tectonics ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Cedar Mountain Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Rafael ◽  
San Rafael Swell ◽  
Biological History

Although only recognized as a discrete stratigraphic unit since 1944, the Cedar Mountain Formation represents tens of millions of years of geological and biological history on the central Colorado Plateau. This field guide represents an attempt to pull together the results of recent research on the lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of these medial Mesozoic strata that document the dynamic and complex geological history of this region. Additionally, these data provide a framework by which to examine the history of terrestrial faunas during the final breakup of Pangaea. In fact, the medial Mesozoic faunal record of eastern Utah should be considered a keystone in understanding the history of life across the northern hemisphere. Following a period of erosion and sediment bypass spanning the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, sedimentation across the quiescent Colorado Plateau began during the Early Cretaceous. Thickening of these basal Cretaceous strata across the northern Paradox Basin indicate that salt tectonics may have been the predominant control on deposition in this region leading to the local preservation of fossiliferous strata, while sediment bypass continued elsewhere. Thickening of overlying Aptian strata west across the San Rafael Swell provides direct evidence of the earliest development of a foreland basin with Sevier thrusting that postdates geochemical evidence for the initial development of a rain shadow.

Tracking dinosaurs in BLM canyon country, Utah

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 67-100
Author(s):  
ReBecca Hunt-Foster ◽  
Martin Lockley ◽  
Andrew Milner ◽  
John Foster ◽  
Neffra Matthews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Salt Tectonics ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Cedar Mountain Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Rafael ◽  
San Rafael Swell ◽  
Biological History

Although only recognized as a discrete stratigraphic unit since 1944, the Cedar Mountain Formation represents tens of millions of years of geological and biological history on the central Colorado Plateau. This field guide represents an attempt to pull together the results of recent research on the lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of these medial Mesozoic strata that document the dynamic and complex geological history of this region. Additionally, these data provide a framework by which to examine the history of terrestrial faunas during the final breakup of Pangaea. In fact, the medial Mesozoic faunal record of eastern Utah should be considered a keystone in understanding the history of life across the northern hemisphere. Following a period of erosion and sediment bypass spanning the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, sedimentation across the quiescent Colorado Plateau began during the Early Cretaceous. Thickening of these basal Cretaceous strata across the northern Paradox Basin indicate that salt tectonics may have been the predominant control on deposition in this region leading to the local preservation of fossiliferous strata, while sediment bypass continued elsewhere. Thickening of overlying Aptian strata west across the San Rafael Swell provides direct evidence of the earliest development of a foreland basin with Sevier thrusting that postdates geochemical evidence for the initial development of a rain shadow.

The Lower Cretaceous in east-central Utah—The Cedar Mountain Formation and its bounding strata

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 101-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Kirkland ◽  
Marina Suarez ◽  
Celina Suarez ◽  
ReBecca Hunt-Foster
Keyword(s):  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Salt Tectonics ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Cedar Mountain Formation ◽  
History Of ◽  
San Rafael ◽  
San Rafael Swell ◽  
Biological History

Although only recognized as a discrete stratigraphic unit since 1944, the Cedar Mountain Formation represents tens of millions of years of geological and biological history on the central Colorado Plateau. This field guide represents an attempt to pull together the results of recent research on the lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and biostratigraphy of these medial Mesozoic strata that document the dynamic and complex geological history of this region. Additionally, these data provide a framework by which to examine the history of terrestrial faunas during the final breakup of Pangaea. In fact, the medial Mesozoic faunal record of eastern Utah should be considered a keystone in understanding the history of life across the northern hemisphere. Following a period of erosion and sediment bypass spanning the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary, sedimentation across the quiescent Colorado Plateau began during the Early Cretaceous. Thickening of these basal Cretaceous strata across the northern Paradox Basin indicate that salt tectonics may have been the predominant control on deposition in this region leading to the local preservation of fossiliferous strata, while sediment bypass continued elsewhere. Thickening of overlying Aptian strata west across the San Rafael Swell provides direct evidence of the earliest development of a foreland basin with Sevier thrusting that postdates geochemical evidence for the initial development of a rain shadow.

A PHOTOGRAMMETRIC REEVALUATION OF SHARED ACCOMMODATION CAUSED BY BIOHERM OCCURRENCE IN THE DESMOINESIAN HERMOSA GROUP, PARADOX BASIN, UTAH

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Johnson ◽  
◽  
Gary L. Gianniny ◽  
M. Elliot Smith ◽  
Paul J. Umhoefer
Keyword(s):  
Paradox Basin

CHARACTERIZATION OF FORMATION WATERS IN THE PARADOX BASIN TO CONSTRAIN PALEOFLUID FLOW AND WATER-ROCK-MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihyun Kim ◽  
◽  
Chandler Noyes ◽  
Ambria Dell'Oro ◽  
Rebecca Tyne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Interactions ◽  
Paradox Basin

scholarly journals Flat-top illumination profile in an epifluorescence microscope by dual microlens arrays

2012 ◽  
Vol 81A (4) ◽  
pp. 324-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. W. Coumans ◽  
Edwin van der Pol ◽  
Leon W. M. M. Terstappen
Keyword(s):  
Microlens Arrays ◽  
Epifluorescence Microscope

Uranium and Vanadium Resources of Utah: An Update in the Era of Critical Minerals and Carbon Neutrality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie E. Mills ◽  
Bear Jordan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mining District ◽  
Paradox Basin ◽  
Carbon Neutrality ◽  
Uranium Exploration ◽  
San Juan County ◽  
Critical Minerals

Utah is the second largest vanadium producing state and the third largest uranium producing state in the United States. Carnotite, a primary ore mineral for both vanadium and uranium, was first discovered and used by Native Americans as a source of pigment in the Colorado Plateau hysiographic province of eastern Utah. Radioactive deposits have been ommercially mined in Utah since about 1900, starting with radium, followed by vanadium, and thenuranium. In 1952, the discovery of the Mi Vida mine in Utah’s Lisbon Valley mining district in San Juan County kicked off a uranium exploration rush across the Colorado Plateau. As a result, the United States dominated the global uranium market from the early 1950s to late 1970s. In the modern mining era, Utah is an important contributor to the domestic uranium and vanadium markets with the only operating conventional uranium-vanadium mill in the country, multiple uranium-vanadium mines on standby, and active uranium-vanadium exploration. Overall, Utah has produced an estimated 122 million lbs U3O8 and 136 million lbs V2O5 since 1904. Most of this production has been from the sandstone-hosted deposits of the Paradox Basin, with minor production from volcanogenic deposits and as byproducts from other operations across the state

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