Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the Book Cliffs, Carbon, Emery, and Grand Counties, Utah, and Garfield and Mesa Counties, Colorado

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High Resolution Correlation of the Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy Between the Book Cliffs and the Western Henry Mountains Syncline, Utah, U.S.A.

“…The cliffs reveal Campanian strata of the Mesaverde Group from broadly west to east in both depositional dip and strike sections in two dimensions, and abundant side canyons within them provide local three dimensional control. The stratigraphy of the Book Cliffs has been intensely studied and consists of eastward thinning siliciclastic wedges of non-marine to marginal-marine deposits that interfinger with fully-marine offshore shale (Young, 1955;Fisher et al, 1960). These deposits have been interpreted to record relative sea-level fluctuations in a predominantly regressive succession during the Late Cretaceous attributed to cyclical variations in, and complex interplay among, local tectonism, sediment supply, and eustatic sea-level position (e.g.…”

Coal resource occurrence and coal development potential maps of the Deadman Canyon Quadrangle, Carbon County, Utah

“…Fisher (1936) mapped the area east of dark's map. The stratigraphy is further described by Abbott and Liscomb (1956), Fisher, Erdmann, and Reeside (1960), Katich (1954), and Young (1955Young ( , 1957Young ( , and 1966. Doelling (1972) has summarized the geology and updated the coal data described by the earlier workers.…”

Coal resource occurrence and coal development potential maps of the southeast quarter of the Woodside 15-minute quadrangle, Emery County, Utah

“…The quadrangle lies at the southeastern end of the Book Cliffs Known in the area have also been described by Abbot and Liscomb (1956), Fisher, Erdmann, and Reeside (1960), Hayes and others (1977), and Young (1955Young ( , 1957Young ( , and 1966. Doelling (1972) has summarized and updated the geology and coal information reported in earlier writings.…”