OUTCROP CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION OF THE UPPER GREEN RIVER FORMATION IN THE UINTA BASIN, UTAH— MAHOGANY OIL SHALE ZONE TO THE UINTA FORMATION

OUTCROP CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION OF THE UPPER GREEN RIVER FORMATION IN THE UINTA BASIN, UTAH— MAHOGANY OIL SHALE ZONE TO THE UINTA FORMATION

Author: Dave Keighley

Publisher: Utah Geological Survey

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1557918759

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The Green River Formation of the Uinta Basin in eastern Utah is host to not only one of the world's largest oil shale deposits, primarily in the Mahogany oil shale zone, but it also contains significant conventional oil and gas reserves in interfingering sand bodies that grade into the laterally equivalent Colton and Wasatch Formations.