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Uinta Basin, the Glossary

The Uinta Basin (also known as the Uintah Basin) is a physiographic section of the larger Colorado Plateaus province, which in turn is part of the larger Intermontane Plateaus physiographic division.^[1]

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)
Historic American Engineering Record in Utah
Regions of Colorado
Regions of Utah
Sedimentary basins of North America
Structural basins of the United States

Altamont, Utah

Altamont is a town in Duchesne County, Utah, United States.

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Asphaltite

Asphaltite (also known as uintahite, asphaltum, gilsonite or oil sands) is a naturally occurring soluble solid hydrocarbon, a form of asphalt (or bitumen) with a relatively high melting temperature.

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Battlement Mesa

Battlement Mesa is a large prominent mesa in western Colorado in the United States.

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Billie Untermann

Billie Untermann (1906–1973) was a geologist who had a significant contribution to the understanding and recognition of the Uintah Basin.

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Book Cliffs

The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah in the Western United States. Uinta Basin and Book Cliffs are Colorado Plateau.

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Carbonate rock

Carbonate rocks are a class of sedimentary rocks composed primarily of carbonate minerals.

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Central Utah Project

The Central Utah Project is a US federal water project that was authorized for construction under the Colorado River Storage Project Act of April 11, 1956, as a participating project. Uinta Basin and Central Utah Project are Historic American Engineering Record in Utah.

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Clastic wedge

In geology, a clastic wedge is a thick accumulation of sediments or sedimentary rocks eroded and deposited landward of a mountain chain or geological boundary.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Coalbed methane

Coalbed methane (CBM or coal-bed methane), coalbed gas, or coal seam gas (CSG) is a form of natural gas extracted from coal beds.

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Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Uinta Basin and Colorado Plateau are regions of Colorado and regions of Utah.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. Uinta Basin and Colorado River are Colorado Plateau.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Desolation Canyon

Desolation Canyon is a remote canyon on the Green River in eastern Utah, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Uinta Basin and Desolation Canyon are Green River (Colorado River tributary).

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Dinosaur National Monument

Dinosaur National Monument is an American national monument located on the southeast flank of the Uinta Mountains on the border between Colorado and Utah at the confluence of the Green and Yampa rivers. Uinta Basin and Dinosaur National Monument are Green River (Colorado River tributary).

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Domínguez–Escalante expedition

The Domínguez–Escalante Expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration conducted in 1776 by two Franciscan priests, Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, to find an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to their Roman Catholic mission in Monterey, on the coast of modern day central California.

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Duchesne River

The Duchesne River, located in the Uintah Basin region of Utah in the western United States, is a tributary of the Green River.

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Duchesne, Utah

Duchesne is a city in and the county seat of Duchesne County, Utah, United States.

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Elaterite

Elaterite (also known as Aeonite, 'elastic bitumen', 'mineral caoutchouc' or Wurtzilite) is a brown hydrocarbon varying somewhat in consistency, being sometimes soft, elastic and sticky, like India rubber, and occasionally hard and brittle.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Facies

In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.

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Fantasy Canyon

Fantasy Canyon is a canyon containing unusual rock formations that were created through erosion and weathering.

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Ferron Formation

The Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale is a geologic unit in Utah.

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Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area

Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is a United States national recreation area in Wyoming and Utah. Uinta Basin and Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area are Green River (Colorado River tributary).

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Fracture (geology)

A fracture is any separation in a geologic formation, such as a ''joint'' or a ''fault'' that divides the rock into two or more pieces.

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Fred Hayes State Park at Starvation

Fred Hayes State Park at Starvation (formerly Starvation State Park) is a state park in Duchesne County, Utah, United States, featuring the Starvation Reservoir.

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Grand Hogback

The Grand Hogback is a 70-mile long, curving, spine-like ridge in Western Colorado that extends from near McClure Pass in Pitkin County through Garfield County and then to near Meeker in Rio Blanco County.

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Grand Mesa

The Grand Mesa is a large mesa in western Colorado in the United States. Uinta Basin and Grand Mesa are Colorado Plateau.

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)

The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. Uinta Basin and Green River (Colorado River tributary) are Colorado Plateau.

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Green River Formation

The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Uinta Basin and Green River Formation are Green River (Colorado River tributary).

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Heritage Documentation Programs

Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) is a division of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) responsible for administering the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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Intermontane Plateaus

In the context of physical geography, the Intermontane Plateaus is one of eight physiographic regions of the contiguous United States.

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Kings Peak (Utah)

Kings Peak is the highest peak in the U.S. state of Utah, with an elevation of.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Laramide orogeny

The Laramide orogeny was a time period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 80 to 70 million years ago, and ended 55 to 35 million years ago.

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Mancos Shale

The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States.

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Mesaverde Group

The Mesaverde Formation was first described by W.H.Holmes in 1877 during the Hayden Survey.

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Monocline

A monocline (or, rarely, a monoform) is a step-like fold in rock strata consisting of a zone of steeper dip within an otherwise horizontal or gently dipping sequence.

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Moon Lake (Utah)

Moon Lake is a high mountain reservoir on the south slope of the High Uintas in Duchesne County, Utah.

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Mowry Shale

The Mowry Shale is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation.

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Mud

Mud is loam, silt or clay mixed with water.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Ozokerite

Ozokerite or ozocerite, archaically referred to as earthwax or earth wax, is a naturally occurring odoriferous mineral wax or paraffin found in many localities.

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Paleozoic

The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Permian

The Permian is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.902 Mya.

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Petroleum trap

In petroleum geology, a trap is a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and caprock of a petroleum system allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons in a reservoir.

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Phosphoria Formation

The Phosphoria Formation of the western United States is a geological formation of Early Permian age.

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Physiographic region

Physiographic regions are a means of defining Earth's landforms into distinct, mutually exclusive areas, independent of political boundaries. Uinta Basin and Physiographic region are physiographic sections.

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Piceance Basin

The Piceance Basin is a geologic structural basin in northwestern Colorado, in the United States. Uinta Basin and Piceance Basin are sedimentary basins of North America.

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Raven Ridge

Raven Ridge is a starkly visible sedimentary rock exposure located in Rio Blanco County, Colorado and Uintah County, Utah, USA.

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Roan Cliffs

The Roan Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in eastern Utah and western Colorado, in the western United States that are distinct from (but closely associated with) the Book Cliffs. Uinta Basin and Roan Cliffs are Colorado Plateau.

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Roosevelt, Utah

Roosevelt is a city in Duchesne County, Utah, United States.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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Structural basin

A structural basin is a large-scale structural formation of rock strata formed by tectonic warping (folding) of previously flat-lying strata into a syncline fold.

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Subsidence

Subsidence is a general term for downward vertical movement of the Earth's surface, which can be caused by both natural processes and human activities.

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Tabiona, Utah

Tabiona is a town in Duchesne County, Utah, United States.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is an obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.

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Thrust fault

A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.

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Uinta Basin Rail

The Uinta Basin Rail project is a proposed rail line to connect the shale oil rich Uinta Basin region of eastern Utah to the national rail network.

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Uinta Indian Irrigation Project

The Uintah Indian Irrigation Project is the principal Indian irrigation project in the Uintah Basin.

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Uinta Mountains

The Uinta Mountains are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending a short distance into northwest Colorado and slightly into southwestern Wyoming in the United States. Uinta Basin and Uinta Mountains are Colorado Plateau.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uinta_Basin

Also known as Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.), Uintah Basin.

, Raven Ridge, Roan Cliffs, Roosevelt, Utah, Sandstone, Sediment, Shale, Structural basin, Subsidence, Tabiona, Utah, Tertiary, Thrust fault, Uinta Basin Rail, Uinta Indian Irrigation Project, Uinta Mountains, Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, United States Geological Survey, Utah, Utah State University, Ute people, Vernal, Utah, Wasatch Plateau, Wasatch Range.

Uinta Basin, the Glossary

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See also

Green River (Colorado River tributary)

Historic American Engineering Record in Utah

Regions of Colorado

Regions of Utah

Sedimentary basins of North America

Structural basins of the United States

References