Eagle

halokinetic potash-bearing salt in United States of America

Geologic information

CountryUnited States of America
Location:-106.898, 39.691
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Site typebasin
Deposit typehalokinetic potash-bearing salt
Evaporite basinEagle
Basin typeintracratonic basin
Geologic unitEagle Valley Evaporite
Age
Paleozoic
Carboniferous-Pennsylvanian
Middle Pennsylvanian-Upper Pennsylvanian
Moscovian-Kasimovian-Gzhelian(?)
Minimum:Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Pennsylvanian-Upper Pennsylvanian-Gzhelian(?)
Maximum:Paleozoic-Carboniferous-Pennsylvanian-Middle Pennsylvanian-Moscovian
Commodities
Minerals
Potassium minerals:
Other minerals:
Geologic map unit-106.898, 39.691
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Production
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Reference information

References

Adams, S.S., 1975, Potash, in Lefond, S.J., ed., Industrial minerals and rocks: Littleton, Colo., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., p. 963-990.
Dodge, C.N., and Bartleson, B.L., 1986, The Eagle Basin; A new exploration frontier, in Stone, D.S.J., and Johnson, K.S., ed., New interpretations of northwest Colorado geology: Denver, Colo., Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, p. 113-121.
Garrett, D.E., 1996, Potash; Deposits, processing, properties and uses: New York, Chapman and Hall, 734 p.
Hardie, L.A., 1990, The roles of rifting and hydrothermal CaCl2 brines in the origin of potash evaporites; An hypothesis: American Journal of Science, v. 290, no. 1, p. 43-106.
Mallory, W.W., 1971, The Eagle Valley evaporite, northwest Colorado; A regional synthesis: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1211-E, 37 p. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1211e/.)