Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Adak; Uravan |
Political location(s): |
United States; Province or state: Colorado |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
continental redbed; in upper sandstone of the salt wash member |
Commodities: |
U; V; Cu |
Geological ages: |
Jurassic (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstoneInternal host rock structures: | interbedding | Individual lithologies: | sandstone mudstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Morrison Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in upper sandstone of the salt wash member; deposit in braided alluvial fan in 2nd order basin over paradox salt |
References: |
Phillips, J. S., 1960 |
Sandstone-Type Copper Deposits of the Western United States |
Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 320 p. |
Young, R. G., 1978 |
Depositional Systems and Dispersal Patterns in Uraniferous Sandstones of the Colorado Plateau, Utah |
Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Volume 61, p. 843 - 843 |
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