Mineral resources of the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area, Grand and San Juan counties, Utah

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OSTI ID:5857106

Patterson, C G; Toth, M I; Case, J E; Green, G N; Barton, H N; Thompson, J R

The Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area consists of 12,635 acres in Grand and San Juan counties, Utah. This study area is on the west flank of a northwest-trending collapsed salt anticline near Moab, Utah, and is underlain by gently west dipping, highly fractured sedimentary rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age. Inferred subeconomic resources of potash and halite in the subsurface, and sandstone at the surface occurs in the Behind the Rocks Wilderness Study Area. This study area has a high potential for undiscovered resources of oil and gas, a low potential for undiscovered resources of uranium, vanadium, copper, gold, silver, other metals, and geothermal energy, and an unknown potential for the rare-earth mineral, braitschite. There is no resource potential for coal.

• OSTI ID: 5857106
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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