Unidentified clay deposit [1], Apache Co., Arizona, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Unidentified clay deposit [1] | Deposit |
| Apache Co. | Mine |
| Arizona | State |
| USA | Country |
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood | 226 (2011) | 6.0km |
| Low Mountain | 757 (2011) | 21.5km |
| Steamboat | 284 (2011) | 30.1km |
| Pinon | 904 (2011) | 31.1km |
| Chinle | 4,518 (2011) | 34.2km |
A clay deposit located in sec. 7, T30N, R23E, G&SRM, 23.6 km (14.7 miles) S of Taasahdi Dzil (summit) (coordinates of record), pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Latitude and longitude values are for the center of sec. 7 per the USGS MRDS file.
Mineralization is a clay deposit hosted in the Chinle formation. local rocks include Cretaceous sedimentary rocks.
Appraisal as structural clay: poor.
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Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ 'Clays' Reference: Kiersch, G.A. (1955), Mineral resources Navajo-Hopi India reservations, Arizona-Utah, Vol. II, Univ. of AZ; Peirce, H.W. (1990), AZ Geol. Sur. Industrial Minerals card file; Phillips, K.A. (1987), Arizona Industrial Minerals AZ Dept. of Mines and Mineral Resources Mineral Rpt. 4. |
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| Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | 'Clays' | - | |
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| ⓘ | 'Clays' | - | |
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| Tithonian - Oxfordian 145 - 163.5 Ma ID: 2832372 | Morrison Formation Age: Jurassic (145 - 163.5 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Morrison Formation Description: Commonly cliff-forming, cross-bedded sandstone lenses alternating with slope-forming siltstone, mudstone and shale. Colors are highly variable, and include greenish gray, reddish brown, pink, white, and purple. Sands were deposited by braided streams with finer sediment representing overbank or lacustrine deposits. (145-160 Ma) Comments: Original map source: Arizona Geological Survey, DI-8 Geologic Map of Arizona, Digital Spatial data for the Geologic Map of Arizona, v. 3.0, edited by S.M. Richard and S.M. Kneale, 2002, 10 p., 2 DOS HD disks. Arc/INFO export file (.e00) format, scale 1:1,000,000. Lithology: Major:{sandstone,siltstone,mudstone}, Minor:{shale} 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] |
| Early Jurassic - Late Triassic 174.1 - 237 Ma ID: 3185972 | Mesozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Mesozoic (174.1 - 237 Ma) Lithology: Sandstone-conglomerate 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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