General Geology

by Trevor H. Schlossnagle and Kayla D. Smith Summary This study investigates the potential role of the Rubys Inn fault in Garfield County as a barrier, conduit, or combination thereof to groundwater flow, which has implications for the possible impacts of development in Emery...

by Bronson Cvijanovich, Michael Thorne, Leif S. Anderson, Ivan Tochimani-Hernandez, Tonie Van Dam, and Christian Hardwick Summary Utah has over 800 rock glaciers, which form in high elevation alpine environments and contain accumulations of ice. This ice is insulated from warmer temperatures by blankets...

Unraveling Earth's Secrets: Capitol Reef Geological Cross Section Embark on a captivating journey through time with the Capitol Reef Geological Cross Section, a remarkable educational tool produced by the Capitol Reef Natural History Association. This meticulously crafted cross-section unveils the intricate layers of Earth's...

by James P. Robinson Summary The Gold Hill area of the northern Deep Creek Range near the Utah-Nevada border has undergone a diverse and complicated history of deposition, igneous activity, deformation, and mineralization and long attracted the attention of geologists. The Gold Hill mining...

By: Peter Goodwin, Rebecca Molinari Summary: This report summarizes a recently completed mapping project in Cache County that had three components: mapping wetland and riparian areas to update NWI mapping; applying additional Landscape Position, Landform, Water Flow path, and Waterbody Type attributes to enhance utility...

By: Miles McCoy-Sulentic, Diane Menuz, and Rebecca Lee Wetlands in the arid Central Basin and Range ecoregion of Utah are scarce but provide important functions such as wildlife habitat, water quality improvement, and recreational and aesthetic values. Field surveys were conducted in 2019 and 2020...

by Utah Geological Survey, Kurt N. Constenius, New Mexico Geochronology Research Laboratory, and University of Alaska, Fairbanks

By: Paul InkenbrandtThe City of Millville, located in a prime location for aquifer storage and recovery (ASR), is having issues with elevated nitrate in the Glenridge well, a public water supply sourced from the Cache Valley principal aquifer. To alleviate high nitrate, the city...

By: Paul Inkenbrandt, Kevin Thomas, and Christian HardwickNorth Logan City modified a gravel excavation site at the mouth of Green Canyon during the spring of 2011 to retain excess flow from the Green Canyon catchment. From August 2011 to March 2012, the Utah Geological...

This open-file report makes available raw analytical data from laboratory procedures completed to determine the age of rock samples collected during geologic investigations funded or partially supported by the Utah Geological Survey (UGS). The references listed in table 1 generally provide additional information such...

By: Janae Wallace With the continued demand for U.S. derived energy products, research and development for unconventional sources of oil and gas has increased, including research geared towards unlocking the vast oil sand resources of the Uinta Basin. In particular, the Southeastern Uinta Basin...

This open-file report makes available raw analytical data from laboratory procedures completed to determine the age of rock samples collected during geologic investigations funded or partially supported by the Utah Geological Survey (UGS). The references listed in table 1 generally provide additional information such...

By: K. Thomas, R. Q. Oaks, Jr., P. Inkenbrandt, W. Sabbah, and M. Lowe Cache Valley is a rural area in northern Utah experiencing an increase in urbanization and ground-water use. Ground water, mostly from the basin-fill aquifer, provides a significant proportion of the...

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By: Z. Gu and M. D. Deo This Open-File Report presents the results of compositional simulations of CO2 floods of the Monument Butte Northeast unit and the Glen Bench field. Both fields produce oil from the Tertiary Green River Formation and both are currently...

By: D. Keele and J. Evans The focus of this study is the sedimentary and structural petrography and petrology of the Jurassic Nugget Sandstone in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. Approximately 2700 ft of core from three wells were described and sampled for petrographic...

By: J. W. Gwynn and F. V. Hanson This annotated bibliography of Utah tar sands includes references to and information on nearly 100 individual deposits. Each reference is followed by an annotation, typically the reference's table of contents. At the beginning of each annotation,...

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By: W. R. Lund, editor This report presents consensus recommendations of the Basin and Range Province Earthquake Working Group (BRPEWG) on five seismic-hazard issues in the Basin and Range Province (BRP) important to the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) 2007 update of the National Seismic...

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