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Bedrock data derived BUTTARS in part from Oriel and Platt, 1980. Topography and PLSS data in Idaho from USGS; Utah topography was generated from 10 meter DEMs. Contour interval, 40 feet. KINGSFORD SPRING A' Contact Qgm Fault Fault - inferred 6864 Spot Elevation DOWDELL SPRING Jenson, P. Well and owner of record CpCb CROOKED Spring location and name SPRING S S I B O L P E Location of test-well target area T A A R E G R E T A Qpb Tsl: Tertiary Salt Lake Formation. White, gray and green siltstone, sandstone and tuff; locally calcareous. Conglomerate that reaches several thousand meters EOCENE thickness along the range front are mapped as Salt TERTIARY Lake Formation by Oriel and Platt, 1980, but may be syntectonic deposits of Cretaceous-age fanglomerate. Os: Middle Ordovician Swan Peak Quartzite. White, tan and pink well sorted, well rounded fine- to Qal: Quaternary alluvium. Gravel and sand actively depositing by medium-grained massive quartzite. flowing water, primarily streams. Includes alluvial fans. Og: Middle and lower Ordovician Garden City Qp: Quaternary Provo Formation. Clay- and silt-rich sediments ORDOVICIAN Limestone. Dark-gray limestone with minor dolomite; 5500 CpCb with locally interbedded sand and gravel deposited from glacial abundant bioclastic and intraformational conglomerate 5000 Tsl Lake Bonneville during the Provo still stand. Pond elevation during and chert increasing toward top. 360 meters thick. 4500 this period was approximately 4800 feet. Qp Qbo Tc Qbo Csw: Upper Cambrian Worm Creek Quartzite. Gray to 4000 Tc Tsl Qbo: Quaternary Bonneville Formation. Clay- and silt-rich tan arkosic quartzite with some sandy dolomite beds in 3500 sediments with locally interbedded sand and gravel deposited PALEOZOIC lower part. 100 to 200 meters thick. Tsl from glacial Lake Bonneville during the Bonneville still stand. Pond 3000 elevation during this period was approximately 5100 feet. Cs: upper Cambrian Saint Charles Formation. 2500 Bonneville level sediments are more deeply dissected by erosion Medium-gray crystalline limestone containing beds of than the Provo Formation. intraformational conglomerate and chert with some thin-bedded dolomite near top. 300 meters thick. PLEISTOCENE CAMBRIAN Qpb: Mixed Quaternary Provo and Bonneville Formation sediments deposited in the deeper levels of Lake Bonneville Cn: Upper and middle Cambrian Nounan Formation. Gray throughout its existence. Primarily clay-rich silt. and blue-gray thin-bedded crystalline dolomite with 5500 Tc minor dark-gray silty limestone and limestone QUATERNARY Qgm: Quaternary glacial moraine. Coarse unsorted gravel conglomerate. 200 meters thick. 5000 Qbo Tsl deposited along the margins of flowing glacial ice. 4500 Tsl CpCb: Middle and lower Cambrian and Precambrian Brigham Quartzite. Poorly sorted white, buff, purple 4000 Qgo: Quaternary glacial outwash. Gravel deposited by streams flowing from melting glacial ice. and qink quartzite with conglomerate and minor phyllite beds. At least 3000 meters thick; base faulted. Tc: early to mid Tertiary perched terrace gravel. Variably thick accumulations of coarse, poorly sorted gravel deposited during erosion of older sedimentary rocks. Faulted and deeply dissected, PROTEROZOIC forms terraces, benches, and locally, fans capping older rocks. PRECAMBRIAN PALEOGENE May be pre-Salt-Lake-Formation age. File: Franklin_Draft_01_09_03.dwg 0500 1000 2000 4000 PLATE 1: GEOLOGY OF THE FRANKLIN AREA SCALE : 1:24,000 Projection: NAD 83 Zone 12 N FRANKLIN COUNTY, IDAHO AND FEET IWRRI Data Source: BRO; Oriel and Platt, 1980 CACHE COUNTY, UTAH GRID NORTH