Blue Mountain group (Blue Mountains 4 claim; Bozo No. 1 claim; Dorothy No. 2 claim; Skull Creek Carnotite deposit), Skull Creek District (Blue Mountain District), Moffat Co., Colorado, USA
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 40° 16' 45'' North , 108° 41' 31'' West |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | 40.27917,-108.69195 |
Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Commodities (Major) - Vanadium, Uranium; (Trace) - Copper
Development Status: Past Producer
Host Rock Unit: Curtis Formation, Unconsolidated Deposits--Alluvium
Structure: Uinta Uplift, Uinta Basin, Yampa Plateau, Douglas Creek Arch, Piceance Basin, Red Wash Syncline, Willow Creek Anticline
Host Rock: Sandstone
Tectonic Structure: Colorado Platform
Commodity List
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16 valid minerals.
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This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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Late Cretaceous - Early Cretaceous 66 - 145 Ma ID: 3028582 | Frontier Sandstone and Mowry Shale Members of Mancos Shale, and Dakota Sandstone Age: Cretaceous (66 - 145 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Frontier Sandstone Member; Mowry Shale Member; Dakota Sandstone Description: Locally includes, at base, Burro Canyon Fm (shale and sandstone) or, in western Moffat County, Cedar Mountain Fm (conglomerate and shale) Lithology: Major:{sandstone,shale}, Minor:{conglomerate} Reference: Horton, J.D., C.A. San Juan, and D.B. Stoeser. The State Geologic Map Compilation (SGMC) geodatabase of the conterminous United States. doi: 10.3133/ds1052. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1052. [133] |
Cretaceous 66 - 145 Ma ID: 3189170 | Mesozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Cretaceous (66 - 145 Ma) Lithology: Sandstone,shale,siltstone Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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