Geologic Guide Along Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah-Wyoming. 2000 Utah Geological Association Publication 29

摘要

Flaming Gorge Reservoir, formed by the impoundment of the Green River behind Flaming Gorge Dam, is well known by fisherman as a world-class sport fishery. Other visitors simply enjoy boating on its waters, camping along its shores, or marveling at its surrounding scenery offered by the Uinta Mountains in Utah and the badlands country of Wyoming. However, Flaming Gorge Reservoir also offers a glimpse into the regions long geologic history recorded in the rocks exposed along its shores. This geologic guide provides a brief description of the geology along the reservoir from near the north end of Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area at Firehole Canyon, Wyoming, to Flaming Gorge Dam, a distance of about 80 miles. More complete descriptions of the geology of Flaming Gorge and the Uinta Mountains are available in Hansen (1965, 1975) and Sprinkel (2000).