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Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 754 Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1,1977 Bibliography of the Geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1977 By Marjorie C. Mullens GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 754 Supersedes Geological Survey Circular 675 1977 United States Department of the Interior CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary Geological Survey V. E. McKelvey, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mullens, Marjorie C. Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, to March 1, 1977. (Geological Survey Circular 754) Bibliography: p. 1. Geology, Stratigraphic Eocene Bibliography. 2. Geology The West Bibliography. 3. Oil-shales-The West-Bibliography. I. Title: Bibliography of the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming ... II. Series: United States Geological Survey Circular 754. QE75.C5 no. 754 [Z6033.S8] [QE692.2] 557.3'08s [016.55792'21) 77-9597 Free on application to Branch of Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, 1200 South Eads Street, Arlington, VA 22202 CONTENTS Page Introduction- = ^ U.S. Geological Survey reports on the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming - - 2 Reports by U.S. Geological Survey authors on geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming in non-U.S. Geological Survey publications 14 Selected reports by non-U.S. Geological Survey authors on geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming- 22 111 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, COLORADO, UTAH, AND WYOMING, TO MARCH 1, 1977 By Marjorie C. Mullens INTRODUCTION The Green River Formation in northwestern Colorado, northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming contains thick and extensive deposits of oil shale. The richest oil-shale deposits underlie an area of 12,000 square kilometers in the Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins in northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah. Cashion and Donnell (1968) reported that these basins contain about 105 billion metric tons of oil in beds which are more than 4.6 meters thick and which contain an average of 5.7 percent of oil by weight. Much additional oil is present in beds that contain less than 5.7 percent oil or are less than 4.6 meters thick in these basins and in other areas underlain by the Green River Formation. Duncan and Swanson (1965) estimated that the known recoverable and marginal resources of oil in the entire Green River Formation are about 280 billion metric tons. In early 1977, however, none of the oil shale was being mined for oil on a commercial basis. The Green River Formation also contains gilsonite, bitumin­ ous sands, oil and gas, and sodium and aluminum minerals. Some of these minerals were being produced commercially in early 1977. This bibliography, which contains 895 references, was compiled to aid studies on the geology and resources of the Green River Formation. References included are mainly on the areal geology, stratigraphy, paleontology, geochemistry, and mineralogy of the Green River Formation, but some concern development of the oil-shale deposits. Recent studies also concern the effects that an oil-shale industry will have on the environment. The bibliography is arranged in three parts: U.S. Geological Survey reports on the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming; reports by U.S. Geological Survey authors on geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, in non-U.S. Geological Survey publications; and selected reports by non-U.S. Geological Survey authors on the geology of the Green River Formation, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The two parts by Geological Survey authors are as complete as possible, but the other part includes only selected references. For reports in which mention of the Green River Formation is only incidental, brackets are used to indicate the pages pertinent to the Green River Formation. Basin, Sweetwater and Carbon U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORTS ON THE Counties, Wyoming, and Moffat GREEN RIVER FORMATION, COLORADO, County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. UTAH, AND WYOMING Survey Oil and Gas Inv. Prelim. Map 32. Andrews, D. A., and Hunt, C. B., 1948, Geologic map of eastern and _____1961, Geologic map of part of southern Utah: U.S. Geol. Survey southwestern Wyoming and adjacent Oil and Gas Inv. Prelim. Map 70, States: U.S. Geol. Survey Misc. scale 1:500,000. [Repr. 1956] Geol. Inv. Map 1-332. Austin, A. C., 1971, Structure contours _____1964, Geology of Green River and overburden on the top of the Formation and associated Eocene Mahogany zone, Green River rocks in southwestern Wyoming and Formation, in the northern part of adjacent parts of Colorado and the Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Utah: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Paper 496-A, 86 p. [1965] . Geol. Survey Misc. Field Studies flap MF-309. Bradley, W. H., and Eugster, H. P., 1969, Geochemistry and Baker, A. A., 1947, Stratigraphy of the paleolimnology of the trona Wasatch Mountains in the vicinity deposits and associated authigenic of Provo, Utah: U.S. Geol. Survey minerals of the Green River Oil and Gas Inv. Prelim. Chart 30. Formation of Wyoming: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 496-B, 71 p. Berry, E. W., 1930, A flora of Green River age in the Wind River Basin Brobst, D. A., and Tucker, J. D., 1973, of Wyoming: U.S. Geol. Survey X-ray mineralogy of the Parachute Prof. Paper 165-B, p. 55-81. Creek Member, Green River Formation in the northern Piceance Bradley, W. H., 1926, Shore phases of Creek basin, Colorado: U.S. Geol. the Green River Formation in Survey Prof. Paper 803, 40 p. northern Sweetwater County, Wyoming: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. _____1974, Composition and relation of Paper 140-D, p. 121-131. analcime to diagenetic dawsonite in oil shale and tuff in the Green _____1929a, The varves and climate of River Formation, northwestern the Green River epoch: U.S. Geol. Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Jour. Survey Prof. Paper 158-E, p. 87- Research, v. 2, no. 1, p. 35-39. 110. Brown, R. W.,, 1929, Additions to the _____1929b, Algae reefs and oolites of flora of the Green River the Green River Formation: U.S. Formation: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 154-G, p. Prof. Paper 154-J, p. 279-292 203-223 [1930] . [1930] . _____1930, The occurrence and origin _____1934, The recognizable species of of analcite and meerschaum beds in the Green River flora: U.S. Geol. the Green River Formation of Utah, Survey Prof. Paper 185-C, p. 45-77 Colorado, and Wyoming: U.S. Geol. [1935] . Survey Prof. Paper 158-A, p. 1-7. Burbank, W. S., Levering, T. S., _____1931, Origin and microfossils of Goddard, E. N., and Eckel, E. B., the oil shale of the Green River [compilers], 1935, Geologic Map of Formation of Colorado and Utah: Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Geol. U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 168, Map, scale 1:500,000. [Repr. 58 p. 1959] 1945, Geology of the Washakie Campbell, D. L., 1975, Schlumberger electric soundings near Yellow Ridge quadrangle, Uintah County, Creek, Piceance Creek basin, Utah, and Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Open- Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Misc. File Rept. 75-354, 28 p. Field Studies Map MF-824. Cashion, W. B., 1959, Geology and oil- Cashion, W. B., and Brown, J. H., Jr., shale resources of Naval Oil-Shale 1956, Geology of the Bonanza- Reserve No. 2, Uintah and Carbon Dragon oil-shale area, Uintah Counties, Utah: U.S. Geol. Survey County, Utah, and Rio Blanco Bull. 1072-0, p. 753-793 [I960]. County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Oil and Gas Inv. Map OM- _____1961, Potential oil-shale 153. reserves of the Green River Formation in the southeastern Cashion, W. B., and Dixon, G. H., 1976, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado, in Isopach map and cross section of Short papers in the geologic and the Mahogany zone, eastern Uinta hydrologic sciences: U.S. Geol. Basin, Utah and Colorado: U.S. Survey Prof. Paper 424-C, p. C22- Geol. Survey Misc. Field Studies C24. Map MF-797. _____1964, The distribution and Cashion, W. B., and Donnell, J. R., quality of oil shale in the Green 1972, Chart showing correlation of River Formation of the Uinta selected key units in the organic- Basin, Utah-Colorado, in rich sequence of Green River Geological Survey research 1964: Formation, Piceance Creek Basin, U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 501- Colorado, and Uinta Basin, Utah: D, p. D86-D89. U.S. Geol. Survey Oil and Gas Inv. Chart OC-65. _____1967, Geology and fuel resources of the Green River Formation, ______1974, Revision of nomenclature southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah and of" the upper part of the Green Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. River Formation, Piceance Creek Paper 548, 48 p. basin, Colorado, and eastern Uinta Basin, Utah: U.S. Geol. Survey _____1968, Maps showing structure, Bull. 1394-G, p. G1-G9. overburden, and thickness for a rich oil-shale sequence in the Cashion, W. B., and Roehler, H. W., Eocene Green River Formation, 1975, Stratigraphic section of east-central Uinta Basin, Utah and part of the Green River Formation Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey open- and underlying units exposed in file rept., 1 p., 4 maps, scale: Tommys Draw, western Piceance 1:250,000. Creek basin, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Open-File Rept. 75-422, 16 _____1969, Geologic map of the Black ' P- Cabin Gulch quadrangle, Rio Blanco County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Clark, F. R., 1928, Economic geology of Survey Geol. Quad. Map GQ-812. the Castlegate, Wellington, and Sunnyside quadrangles, Carbon _____[compiler], 1973, Geologic and County, Utah: U.S.
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