Deltaic and shelf deposits in the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation and Mancos Shale, Grand County, Utah (MP 91-6) Utah Forest Service Maps • Trail distance

• Trail distance

This book is a wealth of useful backcountry navigation advice for beginners and experts alike

It was not so much man against nature as it was man in league with nature against the economic troubles that were then stalking the land

as well as the type and severity of geologic hazards at a site

this trail crosses today's Dixie National Forest

Deltaic and shelf deposits in the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation and Mancos Shale, Grand County, Utah (MP 91-6) Utah Forest Service Maps • Trail distanceM. A. Chan Continuous, well preserved clastic depositional units south of the Book Cliffs escarpment of east central Utah offer exceptional exposures of ancient deltaic, shoreline, shelf and offshore rocks. A stratigraphic and sedimentologic context for these Cretaceous units is an important tool in exploration for coal, oil, and gas, and for recognition of sand body geometries in the subsurface. This study concentrates on the genetic relationships of