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  • Usage in publication:
    • Blue Gate sandstone*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Sandstone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Paradox basin
Publication:

Gilbert, G.K., 1877, Report on the geology of the Henry Mountains: U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey, Rocky Mountain region (Powell), 160 p., (incl. geologic maps), Expanded 2nd edition, 170 p., 1880


Summary:

Pg. 4+. Blue Gate sandstone. Heavy-bedded yellow sandstone, 500 feet thick, underlying Masuk shale and overlying Blue Gate shale in Blue Gate Plateau. Present in Henry Mountains region, [Wayne and Garfield Counties], central southern Utah. Age is Late Cretaceous.
[GNC remark (ca. 1938, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 219): Blue Gate sandstone member of Mancos shale. Now treated by USGS as a member of Mancos shale in Henry Mountains region.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 219).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Bluegate sandstone
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Paradox basin
Publication:

Hunt, C.B., Averitt, Paul, and Miller, R.L., 1953, Geology and geography of the Henry Mountains region, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 228, 234 p., (incl. geologic maps, scale 1:126,720), See also USGS Oil and Gas Inv. Map OM-131


Summary:

Pg. 84. Emery sandstone member of Mancos shale extended into Henry Mountains; replaces Bluegate sandstone [Blue Gate sandstone] as used by Gilbert (1877).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 395).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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