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Geologic Unit: Dimple Dell
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dimple Dell Soil*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Soil
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Wasatch uplift
Publication:

Morrison, R.B., 1965, Lake Bonneville; Quaternary stratigraphy of eastern Jordan Valley, south of Salt Lake City, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 477, 80 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp477]


Summary:

Named after Dimple Dell Road. Only two exposures known in report area. The first, which is designated the type locality and is about 7 ft thick, is in bank of Dry Creek, NW1/4 SE1/4 sec 15, T3S, R1E at altitude 4,770 ft, Salt Lake Co; the second is near mouth of Willow Creek about 1 mi east of Jordan River, N1/2 N1/2 sec 25, T3S, R1W, at altitude of about 4,400 ft, Salt Lake Co. Both localities in UT on the Wasatch uplift. Is developed on pre-Lake Bonneville alluvium. Is overlain by Little Cottonwood Formation (new) of Lake Bonneville Group. Is a Pedalfer that lacks calcareous horizon at both exposures along the mountain front. Westward the soil changes to a Pedocal due to decreasing precipitation. A horizon is lacking, probably due to erosion. Of late Pleistocene age. Correlation chart.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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