Quaternary stratigraphy of the La Sal Mountains, Utah

Abstract

Quaternary stratigraphy Continued Erosion surface between the lower and upper members of the Placer Creek formation.. ____________ Lackey Creek soil _ ___-_-________-_____-____ Definition and type locality. _________________ Facies of the Lackey Creek soiL _ _____________ Brown Podzolic facies_ _ _____-____-____ Brown Forest facies__ _ .__- .-__-______.__ Brown soil facies _ ______________________ Sierozem facies-_ _______________________ Summary of general characteristics of the Lackey Creek soil _ ______________________ Erosion surface between the Placer Creek formation and the Beaver Basin formation ____-____-_-___ Beaver Basin formation_________-_-___.__________ Definition..... _ ____________________________ Type area ___ ____________________________ Facies of the Beaver Basin f ormation_ _________ Till. __________________________________ Rock glacier __ _______________________

Geological Survey Research 1966, Chapter C

“…These fanglomerates in lower West Creek valley are believed to correlate with the Pleistocene Harpole Mesa Formation described by Richmond ( 1962) in the nearby La Sal Mountains in Utah. Richmond divided this formation into three members which he tentatively correlated with the Nebraskan, Kansan, and Illinoian Glaciations of the Midwestern States.…”

Paleontology of the Bears Ears National Monument: history of exploration and designation of the monument

“…The La Sals were glaciated repeatedly during the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Quaternary; the slightly older and lower-latitude Abajos were either not glaciated, or glaciers there were considerably smaller. Each interglacial period induced a sequence of glacial melting, followed by alluviation, and finally erosion (Richmond, 1962;Richmond and Fullerton, 1986;Stokes, 1986;Barnes, 1993;Pierce, 2003).…”

Mineral resources of the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah

“…Salt thickness in the core of the anticlines may exceed 10,000 ft, and the salt shows complex deformation and internal faulting (Hite and Lohman, 1973;Cater, 1970). Collapse of the crests may have occurred as late as early Pleistocene time but not earlier than Miocene time, in response to regional uplift and dissolution of nearsurface salt (Cater, 1970;Richmond, 1962;Kitcho, 1981, Sugiura andKitcho, 1981;Biggar and others, 1981 fig. 2).…”