Sedimentary Facies and Associated Diastrophism in the Upper Cretaceous of Central and Eastern Utah

Cenozoic Stratigraphy of Southwestern High Plateaus of Utah

“…The area was then one of low relief, and formations within the sequence were deposited over large areas. Episodes of tectonism affected the northern and southeastern High Plateaus during this early post-Laramide time (Spieker, 1949a;Bowers, 1972), but analogous events have not been recorded in the southwestern High Plateaus.…”

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

“…The region just east of the Book Cliffs was examined by W. T. Lee, and his results, published in 1912, have also supplied data. The work of E. M. Spieker (1931Spieker ( , 1946Spieker ( , 1949 on the Wasatch Plateau and other areas, chiefly west of the Book Cliffs, has supplied much help toward broad interpretations of features of the Book Cliffs. The writers are grateful to D. M. Kinney, A. D. Zapp, and W. J. Hail, Jr., for permission to use in graphic form a group of six sections in the higher beds of the western Book Cliffs.…”

“…Winchester's study of the oil shale (1923) and the examination of bituminous sandstone beds near Sunnyside by Holmes, Page, and Averitt (1948) included the northern edge of the area. Reeside (1923), Spieker andReeside (1925, 1926), and Spieker (1946) have published papers dealing with the Book Cliffs as part of a larger area. A very thorough description of the westernmost part of the Book Cliffs, adjoining the area described by Fisher (1936), was published by Clark (1928), and one dealing with an area farther west and southwest in the Wasatch Plateau was published by Spieker (1931).…”

“…Reeside (1923), Spieker andReeside (1925, 1926), and Spieker (1946) have published papers dealing with the Book Cliffs as part of a larger area. A very thorough description of the westernmost part of the Book Cliffs, adjoining the area described by Fisher (1936), was published by Clark (1928), and one dealing with an area farther west and southwest in the Wasatch Plateau was published by Spieker (1931). The area of pre-Cretaceous rocks from Valley City eastward to the Colorado State line has been described by Dane (1935).…”

Upper Precambrian and lower Cambrian strata in the southern Great Basin, California and Nevada

“…2B ;Lochman-Balk, 1956, fig. 5 ) and the sandstone units of Cretaceous age in New Mexico and Utah (Sears and others, 1941;Spieker, 1949), contain many individual sandstone units that cover only relatively small areas and that pinch out abruptly into siltstone and shale. In these time-transgressive units, the vertical succession of lithologic types in one area is commonly different from that in an adjacent area.…”