Geologic Publications

Regional Groundwater Flow and Water Quality in The Virgin River Basin and Surrounding Areas, Utah and Arizona (RI-272)
By: Paul Inkenbrandt, Kevin Thomas, and J. Lucy Jordan In this 46-page report, we characterized the deep aquifer system and its connections to the overlying aquifers in the area of the Hurricane fault in Washington County by examining well logs, creating regional potentiometric-surface maps,...

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The Great Salt Lake
By: Dale L. Morgan The Great Salt Lake is a remarkable book, written by a remarkable man. After the passage of nearly a half-century, it remains one of the most informative and readable general histories of Utah yet written; a tribute to the brilliance...

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Surface to Subsurface Reservoir/Aquifer Characterization and Facies Analysis of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Central Utah (SS-167)
By Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Thomas H. Morris, Stephanie M. Carney, Ashley D. Hansen, John H. McBride, and Craig D. Morgan 102 p., 3 appendices, 1 plate, SS-167 Summary The Early Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, famous for massive cross-bedding, represents a large erg system that...

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Hydrogeology of the Malad-Lower Bear River Basin, North-Central Utah and South-Central Idaho (SS-157)
By: Hugh HurlowThis report characterizes the lithology of the younger (i.e., Quaternary) basin fill of the Maladâ€“Lower Bear River basin in north-central Utah to provide a geologic framework for evaluation of groundwater flow and the potential effects of additional future groundwater pumping. Analysis of...

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Landslide Inventory Seeley Fir (OFR-611)
The Utah Geological Survey Open-File Report 611 was compiled by William R. Lund, who served as the coordinator for the Working Group on Utah Earthquake Probabilities (WGUEP). Lund, a senior scientist with the Utah Geological Survey, led the collaborative effort to provide updated fault...

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The geology of the Snyderville basin, western Summit County, Utah, and its relation to ground-water conditions (WRB-28)
By: F. X. Ashland, C. E. Bishop, M. Lowe, and B. H. Mayes, editors Urbanization of parts of the Snyderville basin has been accompanied by an increasing demand to develop the area?s ground-water resources. Ground water is present in shallow unconsolidated deposits and fractured...

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Geology of South-Central Utah (UGA-39)
Edited by: S. M. Carney, D. E. Tabet, C. L. Johnson South-central Utah is famous for its superb outcrops of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. In particular, strata of this region range in age from Triassic to early and mid-Tertiary and were deposited in...

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Geology of Northwestern Utah (UGA-34)
Edited by: K. M. Harty and D. E. Tabet Northwest Utah has been a geologically important area to the state since its earliest days of settlement. Because of its geological importance, this publication presents papers relating to the Great Salt Lake, mineral resources, and...

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Investigation of Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley, Iron County, Utah (SS-150)
By: Tyler Knudsen, Paul Inkenbrandt, William Lund, Mike Lowe, and Steve BowmanThis 116-page report presents the results of an investigation by the Utah Geological Survey of land subsidence and earth fissures in Cedar Valley, Iron County, Utah. Basin-fill sediments of the Cedar Valley Aquifer...

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Aquifer Parameter Estimation from Aquifer Tests and Specific-Capacity Data in Cedar Valley and The Cedar Pass Area, Utah County, Utah (SS-146)
By: Lucy JordanThis 53-page report details aquifer parameter estimation in and near Cedar Valley, west of Utah Lake and the Lake Mountains, in Utah County, Utah. The UGS conducted five aquifer tests on the two most important aquifers in the study area-the principal basin-fill...

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Gilsonite veins of the Uinta Basin, Utah (SS-141)
T. Boden and B. T. Tripp Gilsonite is a solid hydrocarbon that forms a swarm of subparallel, northwest-trending, near-vertical, laterally and vertically extensive veins in the Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado. The Uinta Basin hosts the world's largest deposits of gilsonite and is...

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Geologic and hydrologic characterization of regional nongeothermal groundwater resources in the Cove Fort Area, Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah (SS-140)
By: S. Kirby This report describes the nongeothermal hydrogeologic system of the Cove Creek basin and an adjoining part of the Beaver River basin north of Milford, in Millard and Beaver Counties, Utah. The groundwater system in the study area hosts two commercial geothermal...

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Hydrogeology of Morgan Valley, Morgan County, Utah (SS-139)
By: J. Wallace, M. Lowe, J. K. King, W. Sabbah, and K. Thomas Morgan Valley in the Wasatch Range, like several other hinterland valleys, is a rural area characterized by extensive agricultural activity and increasing population. Groundwater in the unconsolidated valley-fill aquifer is Morgan...

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Characterization and hazard zonation of the Meadow Creek landslide affecting State Route 9, part of the Coal Hill landslide complex, western Kane County, Utah (SS-131)
By: F. X. Ashland, G. N. McDonald, L. M. Shaw, and J. A. Bay Contains a 31-page report and two accompanying plates detailing the results of geologic and geophysical investigations of the Meadow Creek landslide in western Kane County, Utah, between October 2005 and...

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Paleoseismology of Utah, Volume 18: Paleoseismic investigation of the northern Weber segment of the Wasatch fault zone at Rice Creek trench site, North Ogden, Utah (SS-130)
By: C. B. DuRoss, S. F. Personius, A. J. Crone, G. N. McDonald, and D. J. Lidke This Utah Geological Survey Special Study, Paleoseismic Investigation of the Northern Weber Segment of the Wasatch Fault Zone at the Rice Creek Trench Site, North Ogden, Utah,...

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Geologic and hydrologic characterization of the Dakota-Burrow Canyon aquifer near Blanding, San Juan County, Utah (SS-123)
By: S. M. Kirby Recent residential growth in unincorporated portions of San Juan County north and east of Blanding utilizes ground water derived primarily from sandstone of the undivided Dakota and Burro Canyon Formations for culinary water. The primary source of recharge to the...

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The origin and extent of earth fissures in Escalante Valley, southern Escalante Desert, Iron County, Utah (SS-115)
By: W. R. Lund, C. B. DuRoss, S. M. Kirby, G. N. McDonald, G. Hunt, and G. S. Vice Contains a 30-page report and 37-photo appendix of an investigation by the Utah Geological Survey of five recently discovered earth fissures in southwestern Utah. The...

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The geology of Cedar Valley, Utah County, and its relation to ground-water conditions (SS-109)
By: H. A. Hurlow Cedar Valley is a Quaternary-Tertiary-age structural basin in the Utah Lake hydrologic basin. Increased development of ground water due to population increases led to this study of the basin, its geology, and its hydrology and ground-water quality. Principal aquifers in...

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Water-quality assessment and mapping for the principal valley-fill aquifer in Sanpete Valley, Sanpete County, Utah (SS-102)
By: M. Lowe, J. Wallace, and C. E. Bishop Contains the final report and maps for a water-quality study conducted in cooperation with the Utah Division of Water Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. We collected and analyzed ground-water samples from 443 wells...

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Technical reports for 2002-2009 geologic hazards program (RI-269)
By: A.H. Elliott, compiler Contains a compilation of Technical Reports completed by the Geologic Hazards Program of the Utah Geological Survey from 2002-2009. The Technical Report format is used to address geologic-hazard-related problems of site-specific projects of interest to a limited audience. These projects...

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