Surface to Subsurface Reservoir/Aquifer Characterization and Facies Analysis of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Central Utah (SS-167) Chickens Squaretop Mountain

Squaretop Mountain

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Maintaining adequate ground-water supplies and limiting the potential for well interference are critical issues in determining the extent and nature of future development in Cache Valley

but they also include geologic stories and photographs of lesser-known features such as lava flows and clastic dikes

This report includes appendices of wells with gas shows in the Mancos and Hermosa shales of: (1) natural gas tests

Surface to Subsurface Reservoir/Aquifer Characterization and Facies Analysis of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Central Utah (SS-167) Chickens Squaretop MountainBy Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr., Thomas H. Morris, Stephanie M. Carney, Ashley D. Hansen, John H. McBride, and Craig D. Morgan 102 p., 3 appendices, 1 plate, SS 167 Summary The Early Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, famous for massive cross bedding, represents a large erg system that covered much of Utah. The formation serves as a reservoir both for hydrocarbons (oil and gas) and carbon dioxide (CO2), an aquifer for disposal of produced water from coalbed methane