Episode 6 Notes

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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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