Site evaluation for U.S. Bureau of Mines experimental oil-shale mine, Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado
By: by John R. Ege, George H. Leavesley, Susan G. Steele, and John B. Weeks
Contributors: Leavesley, G. H.; Steele, S. G. (Susan G.); Weeks, John B.; United States. Bureau of Mines
Series: Open-file report / U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey -- 78-390; Open-file report (Geological Survey (U.S.)) -- 78-390.
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey
Published: 1978
Place of publication: [Reston, Va.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 42
Subjects: Oil-shales
Description: "The Piceance Creek basin, an asymmetric, northwest-trending large structural downwarp, is located approximately 40km (25 mi) west of the town of Meek er in Rio Blanco County, Colo....In the basin, the Green River Formation comprises three members...they are the Douglas Creek, the Garden Gulch, and the Parachute Creek Members...Four sites are presented for consideration and evaluated on geology and hydrology with respect to shale-oil economics"--Page 1.
Notes: "Prepared under memorandum of understanding agreement no. H0252010 for the U.S. Bureau of Mines"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 19-20, 42).