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Gypsum from
Gypsum Hills, Grand County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gypsum Hills, Grand County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:183155
Long-form Identifier:1:3:183155:9
GUID (UUID V4):4360bec6-e2fc-4ebd-af18-bd604301d086
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Report (volume)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CHARLES D, WALCOTT, DIRECTOR r GYPSUM DEPOSITS IN THE UNITED STATES BY ir- G-EORG-E...technology, and statistics of gypsum, by George I. Adams.......... Properties of gypsum and theory of formation... Character of gypsum.............................................. Varieties of gypsum ................Formation of gypsum.............................................. Deposition of gypsum................. Origin of rock gypsum............................................ Origin of gypsum seams and veins.
Report (volume)
Selected Annotated Bibliography of Gypsum and Anhydrite in the United States and Puerto Rico By CHARLES...geographic occurrences, origin, technology, and uses of gypsum and anhydrite UNIT.ED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Francis, 1920comp. Selected annotated bibliography of gypsum and anhydrite in the United States and Puerto Rico...S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1105) 1. Gypsum-Bibl. 2. Gypsum-U.S. 3. Anhydrite--Bib!. 4. Anhydrite-U...______________________________________________ Gypsum and anhydrite_____________________________________________
Report (volume)
SURVEY GEOKGE OTIS SMITH, Director Bulletin 697 GYPSUM DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES BY R. W. STONE....................... Mineralogy and geology of gypsum, by R. W. Stone....................... Chemical..................................... Analyses of gypsum, by R. W. Stone..................................in the chemical analysis of gypsum, by George Steiger............ The gypsum industry, by R. W. Stone......... Cost of gypsum plaster...... I................................... Uses of gypsum..............
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Asphalt, by Chas. N. Gould . . . Gould . . Gypsum, by Chas. N. Gould 6. Salt, 7. Lead and Zinc...in Choctaw . .9 . coal fields after Taff . gypsum areas and probable asphalt . . . 18 . .... of the following Coal, oil, gas, asphalt, gypsum, salt, lead, zinc, shale, clay, glass sand, granite... 6. Asphalt. 7. Portland cement rock. 8. Gypsum. Clays and shales. Lead and zinc. 9. 10. coming... Sutter, Massey and Blocker. coal. , Carter County, just south of ArdIn the eastern part more, a small
Report (issue)
of the several hilly tracts bearing the name Gypsum Hills. The other high escarpments lie mainly in Texas...it was assumed that the eastern front of the Gypsum Hills from the Kansas boundary to central Texas constitutes...are shown in figure 44, in which the name " Smoky Hills section " is applied to what remains of the " Plains...followed led from Pawhuska, in Osage County, westward to the Gypsum Hills west of Alva; thence south and west...west to Arnett, on the High Plains in Ellis County; thence ZOO MILES FIGDRH 44. Physiographic sections
Report (issue)
UTAH MINERAL INDUSTRY OPERATOR DIRECTORY compiled by Carlton H. Stowe UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY...division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES State Capitol, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 101...101 PRICE $3.00 AUGUST 1973 CONTENTS Page County Maps Showing Location of Operators: Beaver . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Grand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Water Supply Paper 148 (1905). sL. C. Snider, "The Gypsum and Salt of Oklahoma," Oklahoma Geol. Survey Bull...Reeves, "Geology of the Cement. Oil Field, Caddo County, Oklahoma," U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. J26B (1921)... CHARLES X. G()iU> in northeastern Stephens County, a tew miles northwest of the west end of the Arbuckle...formation in northern Beckham and southern Roger Mills County. I t is possible, however, mat later investigations...proposed.1 The name is from that of the county seat of Caddo County, which town lies well within the basin
Report (volume)
Eiver Section from north to south, through Barber County.......................................... Fig...rockbuttes, Gypsum Hills....................................... Mansard buttes, Gypsum Hills.............Creek, Meade County ............................ Section across a small ravine, Harper County ............down the east side of a small ravine in Harper County ...... Section near Wichita......................Meade County ........................................... Section on Kiowa Creek, Comanche County.....
Report (volume)
.......................................... 112 Grand Cote............................................................................................ Grand Saline................................................ Harmon County plains...................................... 127 127 Alfalfa County plain......... 128 Blaine County plain........................................ 128 Beckham County plain............................:.......... Jackson County plains. ..................................... 128 129 Bibliography
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Permian red beds of Oklahoma below the Blaine gypsum, is subdivided into six formations, named in ascending...to the lowermost of the gypsum ledges on the eastern slope of the Gypsum Hills." 1 This included the Harper...Harper, Salt Plain, Cedar Hills, and the greater part of the Flowerpot shales of Cragin's original description...Enid red beds, south across eastern Pottawatomie County to connect with the Konowa formation, which is...traced southward from the type locality in Harper County, Kansas, across north-central Oklahoma. The middle
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF THE CEMENT OIL FIELD, CADDO COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. By FRANK REEVES. INTRODUCTION. The area discussed...discussed in this report is in Caddo County, in the southwestern part of Oklahoma, in the drainage basin...anticlinal folds at Lawton and to the south in Cotton County support this belief. The production of oil at Cement...7 N., R. 12 W., South.Cobb; T. 8 N., R. 11 W., Grand View; T. 7 N., R. 11 W., West McKinley; T. 6 N....point, on the top of the west end of the Keeche Hills, is 1,666 feet above sea level, and the lowest,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
org/rccms/index.php/glacial-park/. The rolling hills in this park formed during the last ice age and...would balance if it were of uniform thickness. Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway: Continues for 42 miles along US-160...Coldwater; http:// www.travelks.com/ksbyways/gypsum-hills/. The red color 94   ROCKS & MINERALS of the...(270-million-year-old) rocks that make up the scenic Gypsum (Red) Hills is derived from iron oxide in the shale,...copper. Fitzgerald Park: 133 Fitzgerald Park Drive, Grand Ledge, 48837; http://www.michigan.org/property/fitzgeraldpark/
Report (volume)
Proceedings, vols. 8 and 9. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 1, no....Geological Survey: Eocene; Miocene; Garrett County; Cecil County; and vols. 4 and 5. Baltimore, Md. Mazama:...Dakota Geological Survey: Biennial Reports, lst-3d. Grand Forks, N. Dak. Nova Scotian Institute of Science:...2 figs., 1900. 2. The physiography of Garrett County [Maryland]. Md. Geol. Surv., Garrett Co., pp. 27-54...Describes the topographic and drainage features of the county, and discusses its physiographic history. 3. Die
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
neighbouring shores of the Tagus and the surrounding gypsum hills promise a rich harvest. Aranjuez is particularly...L., on waste places, while the neighbouring gypsum hills are clothed with Frankenia pulverulenta, Mill...Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork. London, 1845. 8re. Tn~ appearance of the...series of communications on the local history of the county of Cork, which have frola time to time been communicated"...under the title of ' The Botanist's Guide for the County of Cork,' is written by Dr. Thomas Power, and records
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regarded as being bounded on the east by the Flint Hills upland, which extends north and south across the...Arkansas River to ihe Oklahoma line; the Smoky Hills upland, occupying the region north of this to the...outcrop of the Red P.eds below the first gypsum beds; the Red Hills upland, to the west of the Oklahoma prairie...by the Gypsum Hills escarpment : and the High Plains, to the west and north of the Red Hills upland....structural plain on the western slope of the Flint Hills to the east and with the rolling plains of the Oklah/nna
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Matienzo 36 37 TURKEY: Tigris Tunnel USA: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky 38 USA: Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico 39...Cueva del Leon (800m) occurs in a small area of gypsum. The long volcanic chain of the Andes has been...there are few others of note nearby. The sandstone hills of Braidwood contain the spectacular 30m-diameter...massive passages and is also noted for some long gypsum needles and its own glow-worm population. Mini...the pre-Alps. These consist of heavily forested hills which can reach up to 1,500m, and small caves, dolines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
g ypsu m ro c k G Y P S U M D /R 7 ' | x X| GYPSUM AREAS OF KANSAS G Y P SC /M M /L L S VOL. 8,................................................. Gypsum City deposits........................................................................ Secondary gypsum deposits..................................................................... Character o f the gypsum ............................................................................... Analyses of the gypsum ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
springs of salt water, and ranges of hills of massive white gypsum ... ... .... .. .. . FIGURE ...Great Plains, following the buffalo from the Rio Grand to the Platte, were compelled to settle in reservations...Oklahoma City, Norman, El Reno, and Kingfisher, county seats, were in the morning bare prairies, and at...of eastern Oklahoma consists of low, sandstone hills arranged in parallel ridges, with many ledges of...of rocky land in the mountain areas and the gypsum hills region of some western counties, there is a
Report (issue)
..--~------- ~-~~--~-=- -~""":'= 8 Low ·8· hills-=----~~·_; __ ---·-----·.~--":' ___ ..;.:.,. _____...southeastern New Mexico are in eastern Eddy County and westernmost Lea County. Most of the mines lie along a north-... has a population of.39,800 and Lea County 48,800. Eddy County Other than Carlsbad (20,500)» the only...the small communities of Malaga, Otis~> Loco Hills, and Population is highly dependent M.al~amaro...drains southward along the eastern edge of Lea County. It is rare for such generally dry channels to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
strongly impregnated with mineral salts, of which gypsum and common salt form the larger part, although...of the Red-beds areas several ledges of massive gypsum occur. These ledges outcropping to the east form...form the escarpments and caps of the noted Gypsum hills which extend south from southern Kansas to the...McCann's quarry, five miles southeast of Nardin, Kay county; vertebrates, invertebrates, and leaves. 'Colorado...dolomite immediately beneath the heavy ledges of gypsum found near the middle of the Red-beds. Locality
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Dolomite; Ill. THE INDUSTRIAL Phosphate Rock; 156 Gypsum; Salt MINERALS 7. Igneous Minerals Nepheline...the uses of limestone, dolomite, phosphate rock, gypsum, and salt. Part III of Bates includes chapters...shipped from county to would do as well), it rapidly decreases to place value is shown county, still less...the thick surface gypsum beds of Nova Scotia has been hampered because the gypsum is sometimes abruptly...et al., 1957, Geology of Gabbs and vicinity, Nye County, Nevada, U.S. Geol. Survey Map MF 52; and Vitaliano
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
belonging to the kingdom of Mureia; low, uniform hills of chalk alternating with wheat-fields and waste...better from hence, as the land is elevated in low hills, between which occur here and there little isolated...neighbouring shores of the Tagus and the surrounding gypsum hills promise a rich harvest. Aranjuez is particularly...L., on waste places, while the neighbouring gypsum hills are clothed with Frankenia pulverulenta, Mill...Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork. London, 1845. 8re. Tn~ appearance of the
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Rock, a Cretaceous chalk spire in eastern Gove County, Kansas. See “Scenic Kansas’’, pages 11-12. Photo...northeastern Kansas, Doniphan County Rock City, southwest of Minneapolis, Ottawa County THE EARTH SCIENCE...sandstone mass. As erosion by wind, rain wash, and County running water lowered the surface, carrying away...miles west of Medicine Lodge, Barber County Gypsum Hills, Barber County; view 3 miles southwest of Medicine...DIGEST Bridge, 6 miles south of Sun City, Barber County of southwestern Kansas were deposited in shallow
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(Continued) 156 Limestone and Dolomite; Phosphate Rock; Gypsum; Salt Ill. THE INDUSTRIAL MINERALS 7. Igneous...the uses of limestone, dolomite, phosphate rock, gypsum, and salt. Part HI of Bates includes chapters...the fact that little gravel is shipped from county to county, still less from state to state, and none...the thick surface gypsum beds of Nova Scotia has been hampered because the gypsum is sometimes abruptly...al., 1957, Geology of Gabbs and vicinity, Nye County, Nevada, U.S. Geol. Survey Map MF 52; and Vitaliano
 
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