Gilsonite veins of the Uinta Basin, Utah (SS-141) 20%Sale and late Tertiary to recent

and late Tertiary to recent basin-andrange extensional faulting

only a fraction of this colluvium was mapped because the main emphasis of this map is to show the distribution and structure of the bedrock

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Gilsonite veins of the Uinta Basin, Utah (SS-141) 20%Sale and late Tertiary to recentT. Boden and B. T. Tripp Gilsonite is a solid hydrocarbon that forms a swarm of subparallel, northwest trending, near vertical, laterally and vertically extensive veins in the Uinta Basin of Utah and Colorado. The Uinta Basin hosts the world's largest deposits of gilsonite and is the only place where gilsonite is economically produced in large quantities. The goal of the Utah Geological Survey study was to generate a map of the gilsonite veins,