Dawsonite and Nahcolite Analyses of Green River Formation Oil-shale Sections, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado
Dawsonite and Nahcolite Analyses of Green River Formation Oil-shale Sections, Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado

Author: Neil B. Young

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Published: 1970

Total Pages: 28

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Analytical results for nahcolite, dawsonite, total extractable alumina, and oil yield are presented for samples representing Green River Formation oil shales in the saline section of two cores from Colorado's Piceance Creek basin. Analyses are also reported for samples extending the analyzed section of Colorado corehole No. 3 beyond that reported previously. These data permit evaluation of the deposit for possible production of three coproducts -- shale oil, alumina, and sodium carbonates -- from the saline section of the formation at these sampled points.

Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA
Stratigraphy and Paleolimnology of the Green River Formation, Western USA

Author: Michael Elliot Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9401799067

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This volume presents a suite of detailed stratigraphic and sedimentologic investigations of the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, one of the world’s foremost terrestrial archives of lacustrine and alluvial deposition during the warmest portion of the early Cenozoic. Its twelve chapters encompass the rich and varied record of lacustrine stratigraphy, sedimentology, geochronology, geochemistry and paleontology. Chapters 2-9 provide detailed member-scale synthesis of Green River Formation strata within the Greater Green River, Fossil, Piceance Creek and Uinta Basins, while its final two chapters address its enigmatic evaporite deposits and ichnofossils at broad, interbasinal scale.