Geology and Ore Deposits of the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains, Utah

Download or read book Geology and Ore Deposits of the Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains, Utah written by David A. John and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oquirrh and Wasatch Mountains lie at the eastern edge of the Basin and Range province in north-central Utah, an area that has had a long and complex deformational history, including two compressional events and two extensional events in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, respectively. The ranges host three major mining districts largely containing pluton-related mineralization. The districts are aligned along the east-west trending Uinta-Cortez axis that is a manifestation of an Archean-Proterozoic suture. The axis is the fundamental control on pluton emplacement and related metallogeny.