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Mancos Shale, Frontier Ss, and Mowry Shale
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Mancos Shale (Hilliard Shale and Blair Formation north of Uinta Mountains), Frontier Ss, and Mowry Shale.
State
Utah
Name
Mancos Shale, Frontier Ss, and Mowry Shale
Geologic age
Late Cretaceous
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale
(Bed)
Minor
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone
(Bed)
References
Hintze, L.F., 1980, Geologic map of Utah: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, scale 1:500,000.
Franczyk, K.J., Fouch, T.D., Johnson, R.C., Molenaar, C.M., and Cobban, W.A., 1992, Cretaceous and Tertiary paleogeographic reconstructions for the Uinta-Piceance Basin study area, Colorado and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1787-Q, 37 p.
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b1787Q
Hettinger, R.D. and Kirschbaum, M.A., 2002, Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale (upper part) and Mesaverde Group in the southern part of the Uinta and Piceance basins, Utah and Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Investigations Series I-2764, 21 p., 2 sheets, http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/i-maps/i-2764/
https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/i2764
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Daggett
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Duchesne
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Uintah
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Wasatch