Episode 6 Notes

My Photos

https://imgur.com/gallery/ex3fLtH 

Mountain Project Links to the Climbs I did

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/105880426/the-angler - the angler (Riverside Area)

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/107183677/chexmix - Chex Mix (Boy Size Area)

https://www.mountainproject.com/area/105880402/man-size - Man size area

Sources

https://ugspub.nr.utah.gov/publications/geologicmaps/7-5quadrangles/m-67.pdf 

• Geology of the area

https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-b/REPORTS/Chapter_12.pdf 

• Good resource about blackhawk and castlegate formations

https://www.usbr.gov/projects/index.php?id=168 - joes valley dam construction

https://www.fs.usda.gov/nfs/11558/www/nepa/101516_FSPLT3_4054109.pdf - building up joes valley into a bouldering area

https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/2006/1723/pdf/P1723_508.pdf - joes valley dam landslide

• Dam constructed in 1966

• 58 meters high/229 meters wide

• Top of the road and makes the reservoir

• Earthen dam

• Earthquake induced slide in right abutment in 1988 in the sandstone/shale talus in 1988

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2019/09/24/closed-eastern-utah-coal/ - plans to reopen the coal facility

• Wolverine Fuels LLC bout out the old non operational coal mining company that owns land there

https://www.ogm.utah.gov/coal/minedetail.php?C0150009 

• History of the coal mine in joes valley

• Trail Mountain mine renamed fossil rock mine

• 2001 the mine went into remission

• Hiawatha seam of coal

• Longwall method

http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/emery/ 

• History of the Joes Valley Dam

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/05/16/judge-overturns-oaklands-ban-on-coal-shipments-through-its-port/ 

• More on the coal mining

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2909/a4f93cfcfcef11edf073a62118096dc2e510.pdf?_ga=2.126547021.1797616577.1606517221-727808332.1604309310 

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/70979837.pdf - coal metamorphism in sandstones

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1512/1512.05184.pdf#:~:text=Castlegate%20sandstone%20%E2%80%93%20composed%20of%2070,velocity%20~%201830%20m%2Fs. - properties of the castlegate sandstone

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Episode 5 Notes

 My Photos

https://imgur.com/gallery/3KPgnd2

Mountain Project

https://www.mountainproject.com/area/113406457/emigrant-wall - emigrant wall climbing

https://www.mountainproject.com/area/119634170/kirkwood-lake - kirkwood lake boulder area, although it does not have the birthday boulder listed

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/608320 - specifics on rocks in the sierra

https://gis.ess.washington.edu/keck/ARG-CV-2006_updated_files/gillespie_tahoe_glaciation.pdf - glaciation

https://www.nap.edu/read/2309/chapter/4#35 - joints. Main reference used

https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1899/report.pdf - dikes

https://scholarworks.unr.edu/bitstream/handle/11714/1781/Mackay677_WardK.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y - more on dikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAZ1V_DJKV8 - exfoliating rock

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/exfoliation-joints-and-ice-action/FFBADADB84C1279E64A52C62CCAB6868/core-reader - general exfoliation info

https://images.app.goo.gl/ntzvdA6nSHkkwje48 - lynn hill

https://www.usgs.gov/science-support/osqi/yes/national-parks/joshua-tree-national-park-geology#:~:text=This%20erosion%20is%20largely%20caused,eating%20away%20at%20the%20rock.&text=Joshua%20Tree%20National%20Park%20has,along%20which%20movement%20has%20occurred). - joshua tree spheroidal weathering

https://www.mountainproject.com/area/113406457/emigrant-wall - emigrant wall climbing

http://www.carsonpass.com/activities/historic_sites.html - carson pass history (not talked about in the episode, but interesting nonetheless