Characteristics of aquifers in the northern Uinta Basin area, Utah and Colorado

Ground-water flow in the Duchesne River-Uinta aquifer, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado

“…2) and consists dominantly of variegated red shale, siltstone, sandstone, and conglomerate. The Duchesne River Formation is about 3,000 ft thick in the center of the basin (Hintze, 1988, Hood, 1976. It is composed of coarse-grained rocks where it thins near basin margins.…”

“…Ground water in the aquifer exists under a complex system of shallow water-table, perched, and deep artesian conditions. Hydrologic studies previously have been done on parts of the Duchesne River-Uinta aquifer (Price and Miller, 1975;Hood, 1976;and Hood and Fields, 1978), but the lateral boundaries of these studies did not coincide with the lateral boundaries of the aquifer. Internal boundaries of the aquifer, such as the Duch- …”

“…1). The Duchesne River-Uinta aquifer includes both the Duchesne River Formation of late Eocene and early Oligocene age and the Uinta Formation of late Eocene age, because these two formations act as a single geohydrologic unit and interfinger at the east and west ends of the basin (Hood, 1976;L.J. Martin, U.S. Geological Survey, written commun., 1986).…”

Geochemistry of selected aquifers in Tertiary rocks of the Upper Colorado River basin in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah

“…According to Bradley (1964, p. 49 [From Bradley, 1964;Love, 1964;Roehler, 1970Roehler, , 1973Hood, 1976;and Dribus and Nanna, 1982] Mineral name in the Uinta or Duchesne River Formations in the Uinta Basin. The andesitic, dacitic, and rhyolitic tuffs found in the Bridger and Washakie Formations in the Green River Basin and Great Divide-Washakie-Sand Wash Basins contain plagioclase, hornblende, silicic glass, chloritized biotite, organic matter, augite, quartz, and sanidine, and small amounts of zircon, garnet, sphene, and apatite (Bradley, 1964, p. 49-54;Love, 1964, p. 6-7;Roehler, 1970, p. 181-187;Roehler, 1973, p. 21-22).…”

Potential hydrologic impacts of a tar-sand industry in 11 special tar sand areas in eastern Utah

“…Campbell and Ritzma (1979), Cashion (1967), Cashion and Donnell (1974), Holmes (1979Holmes ( , 1980, Holmes and Kimball (1983), Hood (1976Hood ( , 1977, Hood and Danielson (1981), Hood and Fields (1978), Hood and Patterson (1982), Osterwald and others (1981), and Price and Miller (1975) contain information on geology and ground-water characteristics. Fields (1975), Jurado and Fields (1978), Lindskov and Kimball (1982), Lines and others (1983), Mundorff (1972Mundorff ( , 1977Mundorff ( , 1979, Mundorff and Thompson (1982), Waddell (1976), and Waddell and others (1981) contain hydrologic information on the Colorado, Dirty Devil, Duchesne, Green, Price, San Rafael, Uinta, and White Rivers and other smaller streams.…”