Geology of the lower Yellow Creek Area, Northwestern Colorado

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6684791

Hail, W J

The lower Yellow Creek area is located in Rio Blanco and Moffat Counties of northwestern Colorado, about midway between the towns of Rangely and Meeker. The study area is in the northwestern part of the Piceance Creek basin, a very deep structural and sedimentary basin that formed during the Laramide orogeny. Potentially important resources in the area are oil shale and related minerals, oil and gas, coal, and uranium. Topics discussed in the report include: Stratigraphy (Subsurface rocks, Cretaceous rocks, Tertiary rocks, and Quaternary deposits); Structure (Midland anticline, graben at Pinyon Ridge, and Crooked Wash syncline, Folds and faults in the vicinity of the White River, Red Wash syncline and central graben zone, Yellow Creek anticlinal nose); Economic geology (Oil shale and associated minerals, Coal, Oil and gas, Uranium, Gravel).

• Research Organization: Geological Survey, Alexandria, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6684791
• Report Number(s): PB-90-230129/XAB; USGS-BULL--1787-O
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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