Site evaluation for U.S. Bureau of Mines experimental oil-shale mine, Piceance Creek Basin, Rio Blanco County, Colorado

By Ege, John R.

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.