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Chalcedony from
Morrison Formation, San Juan County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Formation
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morrison Formation, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1222015
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1222015:7
GUID (UUID V4):5d7e1920-df7f-4b8b-8275-36c787bed011
References
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Report (issue)
of Sandstones in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado: Geologic...Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California-Customhouse...of Sandstones in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado: Geologic...BULLETIN 1808 EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS SAN JUAN BASIN DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN...of sandstones in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado : geologic
Report (issue)
Clinoptilolite-B earing Tuffs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, Southwestern...1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. SPOKANE...Clinoptilolite-B earing Tuffs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, Southwestern...clinoptilolite-bearing tuffs in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation, southwestern...Clinoptilolite Ute Mountain Indian Reservation. 2. Morrison Formation. I. Sheppard, Richard A. II. Titie. ni. Series
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
depositional systems in the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic), Western Interior, USA Stan P. Dunagan a,*,...Martin, TN 38238, USA b U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, MS-939, Denver, CO 80225-0046, USA Abstract During...During deposition of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, water that originated as precipitation in uplands... where shallower aquifers discharged into the San Juan/Paradox Basin, which was another small structural...wetland/lacustrine deposits are well developed in the Morrison Formation of east-central Colorado, occupying a stratigraphic
Report (issue)
Mesoeoic. . . Chinle,formation .> ' ?» Glen Canyon group Wingate sandstone Kayenta formation * £>: ,{ «';'*C;fHvSK'"'j:S...Geology--continued Stratigraphy--continued Mesozoic--con tinued San Rafael group ................... 2.S Entrada sandstone............ 2°l Summerville formation .............. 3O Morrison formation. ............... 31 Salt...Basin member. ............ 3f Burro Canyon formation*. . ............ 35* Dakota sandstone. .......Stratigraphic sections measured in the Klondike Ridge area, San Miguel and Dolores Counties, Colorado. . . B. Descriptions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous Rocks of Southeastern Utah RICHARD D. DAYVAULT 392 Ridge View Drive Grand Junction...geocycad@bresnan.net H. STEVEN HATCH P.O. Box 27 Hanksville, Utah 84734 hatch22543@aol.com Photographs by Frank Daniels...foreground are mudstones from the Cedar Mountain Formation. Sandstones that might host cycads cap the hills...of range on the left are composed of Entrada Formation sandstone and are inside Arches National Park...the Henry Mountains and Moab areas of southeastern Utah. The most beautifully colored examples are found
Report (issue)
Middle Jurassic Entrada Sandstone and Wanakah Formation near Placerville, southwestern Colorado by Brenda....................................... Wanakah Formation..................................................................................... Wanakah Formation undifferentiated.................................................... Salt Wash Member of Morrison Formation.................................. References...structures in Pony Express Limestone Member of Wanakah Formation........................ 2 5 7 8 10 TABLES Table
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FOUND IN UTAH Adapted by Martha R. Smith o UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of UTAH DEPARTMENT...found in Utah is based on a chapter on Gem Materials, written by M.D. Dasch and published in Utah Geological...Survey Bulletin 73, Mineral and Water Resources of Utah. Bulletin 73 , published in 1969, was prepared by...has been updated and expanded. DID YOU KNOW? .. Utah has a wide variety of gem materials from which semiprecious...semiprecious gemstones and ornamental stones found in Utah include: azurite and malachite; beryl (aquamarine
Report (issue)
Petrology of the Morrison Formation in the Colorado Plateau Region GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Atomic Energy Commission Petrology of the Morrison Formation in the Colorado Plateau Region By ROBERT...sandstone strata in a major uranium-ore-bearing formation which was deposited in a subsiding continental...______________________________ Problems of the Morrison study__________________ Stratigraphy ________..._ Salt Wash and Recapture Members of the Morrison Formation-______________________________________ Stratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
From Area of Grand County, ’ .” Grand Junction,Colorado 61slaa Limb casts, probably of conifer...prolifically in the Yellow Cat area of Grand County, Utah, are among the world’s most beautiful examples...Sal Mountains. Morrison-age Brushy Basin sediments are in the left middle foreground. Utah juniper and green...Cedar Mountain Formation and on the west and south by a broad area of the Morrison Formation that is partly...northwest. During the past one hundred years, the Morrison Formation has been studied and described by many investigators
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jasper UTAH of Southeastern 308 ROCKS & MINERALS What do agates and jaspers of southeastern Utah have...Late Jurassic Curtis Formation sandstone beds with underlying Entrada Formation hogbacks in the background...background. This sequence is dipping off the San Rafael Swell. The ground surface is densely covered with...jasper nodules that have weathered from the Curtis Formation. Most of these weathered nodules are heavily cracked...of the more prolific localities in southeastern Utah that produce colorful microcrystalline silica, which
Report (issue)
Jurassic to Lowermost Upper Cretaceous Strata in the San Juan Basin of Northwestern New Mexico By WILLIAM M...the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation and the Lower Cretaceous Burro Canyon Formation in the Four Corners...BULLETIN 1808-J,K EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS-SAN JUAN BASIN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL...jurassic to Lowermost Upper Cretaceous strata in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico I by William...the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation and the Lower Cretaceous Burro Canyon Formation · in the Four Corners
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROCKS of EASTERN UTAH ossil conifer cones occur in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation and the Lower...Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah. Most specimens are small and elongate; others are...main geologic/paleontological settings in eastern Utah where conifer cones are often found: (1) associated...the base of the Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation; (2) at the upper contact of the Salt Wash...Wash Member with the Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation, associated with petrified wood; (3) at an
Report (issue)
1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. SPOKANE...BULLETIN 1808 EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS SAN JUAN BASIN U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE...bulletin ; 1808-P) (Evolution of sedimentary basins San Juan Basin; ch. P) Includes bibliographical references...Series. V. Series: Evolution of sedimentary basins San Juan Basin ; ch. P. QE75.B9no. 1808-P [QE391.P55] 557...Map showing outcrops of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation and locations of measured sections P2 2.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
03 January 2015 Morrison Formation of South 232 ROCKS & MINERALS eastern Utah RICHARD D. DAYVAULT...geocycad@bresnan.net H. STEVEN HATCH P.O. Box 27 Hanksville, Utah 84734 sta4332@utah.gov Downloaded by [Tulane University]...his collection unless othermse noted T he Morrison Formation of the western United States yields many...dinosaur skeletons. Fossil woods are also common in Morrison sediments, and the large, colorful, well-silicified...‘Red Wood’from the Yellow Cat Area of Grand County, Utah”; it appeared in the July/August 2000 issue
Report (issue)
measured sections of the Morrison Formation and related units, southwestern San Juan Basin, New Mexico By...Morn" son Formation and related strati graphic units in the southwestern part of the San Juan Basin about...Mexico (fig. 1). three members: Here the Morrison Formation is divided into the Recapture (Jmr), the... Brushy Basin (Jmb), in ascending order. The Morrison is overlain by the Cretaceous Dakota Sandstone...Sandstone (Jcs) and Summerville(?) Formation (Js?). The formation and member symbols are used on some
Report (issue)
pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard...pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker and Frank W. Osterwald...---Uranium in the fluorspar deposits of the Thomas Range, Utah, by Mortimer H. Staatz and Frank W. Osterwald__________...Geology of the Los Ochos uranium deposit, Saguache County, Colorado, by R. C. Derzay _·- _______ ____ __...and Hopi Reservations, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, by Eugene M. Shoemaker________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
many quartz occurrences in the Pikes Peak and San Juan Mountain regions. A n article on Colorado quartz...concentric, variety of chalcedony (composed of alternating layers of chalcedony having differ­ ent colors)...moss or plumelike growths. O n y x is a layered chalcedony similar to agate, except that the bands are straight...translucent chalcedony, the color being due to iron impurities; s a r d is a brown chalcedony. C h r y s...s o p r a s e is an apple green variety of chalcedony that is colored by nickel oxide. J a s p e r is
Report (issue)
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE SAN RAFAEL SWELL AND SOME ADJACENT AREAS IN EASTERN UTAH By JAMES GILLULY and JOHN...information on the stratigraphy of the region Eastern Utah is a part of the Colorado Plateau treated. province...and cliffs. Exposures of bedrock are almost the San Rafael Swell, its entire area except part of the...109° tions will suffice to FIGURE 2.—Index map of Utah, showing location of numbered stratigraphic sections...geology of importance as well. sometimes complete the San Rafael Swell (TJ. S. Geol. Survey Bull. —, in preparation)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
base of Chinle formation 9. Dolomite nodules and silica zone at base of Chinle formation 10. Uranium-silica...Uranium-silica zone at base of Chinle formation 11. Dolomite nodules above clay zone Page 1080 1080 1080 1080... 1096 17. Structural pattern, southern San Rafael Swell, Utah 1098 18. Hot-springs deposition along Nacimiento...Mexico 1106 33. Uranium-bearing channel, Chinle formation, Cameron, Arizona 1107 34. Unaltered Chinle strata...Silicification and alteration, Temple Mountain, Utah 1086 2. Dolomite, San Rafael Swell 1086 3. Uranium-bearing
Report (issue)
OF ,URANIUM IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN AND ADJACENT 'REGION, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, UTAH & COLORADO I , J...OF THE GEOLOGY AND RESOURCES OF URANIUM IN THE SAN JUAN BASIN AND ADJACENT REGION, NEW MEXICO, 'V'R.0.... .:.;J .. _. ·5 ‱ ALBU~U~~QUE, N. A~IZONA, UTAH, AND COLORADO By Jennie L. Ridgley, Morris W.... Ignacio Quartzite 6 . .i Aneth Formation 6 Elbert Formation 7 Ouray Limestone 7 Rocks of Mississippian...Log Springs Formation 10 Rocks of Pennsylvanian age 11 Molas Formation 11 Formation ~ermosa .
Report (volume)
SALT VALLEY ANTICLINE AND ADJACENT AREAS GRAND COUNTY, UTAH BY C. H. DANE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING....________ Paradox formation.____-_-___---__-_____-__-__-__..__. Hermosa formation..._________________________________...8eries_----__-__--------_-___-_-___--_______ Moenkopi formation._.._____.______.____.___-_____.___ Upper Triassic...series_---__-_-_-_----_---_---_-_-_-_---._-_ Chinle formation..____________________________________ Jurassic...sandstone.___________-__-____-__-_-.--__-____ Kayenta formation.___________________________________ Navajo sandstone
Report (volume)
system_______________________________________________ Cutler formation ____________________ -----_----____________ Halgaito...----·__________________ Moenkopi formation ________________ -~- __ ~-________________ Chinle formation _______________...system________________________________________________ Carmel formation _____________________ -_ _____ -------________...sandstone___________________________________________ Morrison formation________________________________________...sections of the Monument No. 2 mine area, Apache County. 1. Index map of parts of Apache and Navajo Counties________
Report (volume)
and Uranium Deposits of Monument Valley San Juan County, Utah By RICHARD Q. LEWIS, SR., and DONALD E.... ...._Cutler formation .-----. - .. .-Moenkopi formation .-.-... . ... Chinle formation .---.. ........Shinarump member of the Chinle formation.......... . Chinle formation, undifferentiated Glen Canyon group...sediments of the Shinarump member of the Chinle formation . __._. .-. _._... 13. Photomicrograph of chalcocite...mine .. ..... . .. ._ .. FIGURE 10. Index map of Utah showing the Monument Valley area...... 11. Block
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most...State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings.... . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
Monticello, White Canyon, and Monument Valley Districts . Utah and Arizona By H. S. JOHNSON, JR., and WILLIAM THORDARSON..._-----_ _-__ Hermosa Formation.__________--___________-----___-______ Rico Formation.________________--...-________ Cutler Formation. ________----_-__-----------_----_-_--Moenkopi Formation.________________..._____________________________________ Chinle Formation ___-____---__-__--__--__--_--_--_----_ Mottled unit -...._._----_-_..._________-----___--------_-__--_-______ Kayenta Formation..._.____-----_-_-_-_-_---______-_____ Navajo Sandstone
 
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