Criteria for Outlining Areas Favorable for Uranium Deposits in Parts of Colorado and Utah
Description:
Abstract: Most of the uranium deposits in the Uravan and Gateway mining districts are in the persistent upper sandstone stratum of the Salt Wash member of the Morrison formation. Areas in which this stratum is predominantly lenticular have been differentiated from areas in which the stratum is predominantly nonlenticular. The most favorable ground for uranium deposits is in areas of lenticular sandstone where the stratum is underlain by continuous altered greenish-gray mudstone.
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Date:
1955
Creator:
McKay, E. J.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department