Area Map

Photographs

                View of western part of Colorado Plateau in central Utah.  Shale slopes 

                in the distance are capped by the Star Point Sandstone and coal-bearing

                Blackhawk Formation.

                  A modern stripmine: Dragline in pit at Peabody-Western's Black 

                  Mesa mine located in the Navajo-Hopi joint-use area in Arizona.

                  Eastern escarpment of Black Mesa in the Rough Rock area showing 

                  upper Mancos Shale and Mesaverde Group.  The Rough Rock road

                  is visible in the distance.

                   Fiftymile Mountain on the southeastern margin of the Kaiparowits 

                   Plateau, as viewed from Lake Powell.

Quitchipah Point in the southern Wasatch Plateau.

                    Outcrops in Convulsion Canyon showing occurrence of coal at the 

                    base of the Blackhawk Formation.

                     Photograph looking northeast across Henry Mountains coal field 

                     showing steeply dipping Jurassic strata along the Waterpocket fold 

                     in the foreground, relatively flat-lying mesas of Upper Cretaceous 

                     strata in the basin center, and intrusive-cored Henry Mountains on 

                     the east side of the coal field along the southern horizon.

                    Photograph of the Ferron Sandstone Member of the Mancos Shale 

                   showing thick sandstones and the Sub-A coal zone at the Interstate-70 

                   roadcut south of Emery, Utah.

        All photographs from Kirschbaum, M.A., Roberts, L.N.R., and Biewick, L.R.H., 2000,

        Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Colorado Plateau: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, 

        and Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625 B, CD-ROM.

To order this CD, contact Christa Lopez.

Email:  clopez@usgs.gov 

Regional Coordinator: Mark Kirschbaum

 Email:  mkirsch@usgs.gov