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Quaternary Geomorphic Features Of The Bear River Range, North-Central Utah, Jerome Vernon Degraff
Quaternary Geomorphic Features Of The Bear River Range, North-Central Utah, Jerome Vernon Degraff
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The Bear River Range, in north-central Utah, contains a variety of geomorphic elements influenced by the geologic setting and events. Controlling factors of the geologic setting include: (1) a syncline (west) and an anticline with a crestal graben (east) within the part of the mountain range studied, and an adjacent graben valley along the west side of the range; and (2) bedrock of Precambrian and Paleozoic age in the core of the range, predominantly of shallow-marine carbonates and covered in the graben by shaly and conglomeratic rocks of early Cenozoic age, with fanglomerates and lake deposits of later Cenozoic age. …