Rockhounding Utah
by Gary Warren and William A. Kappele
Rockhounding Utah
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| Acknowledgments |
vii
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| About This Guide |
ix
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| Introduction: Welcome to Utah |
1
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| Finding Your Way |
5
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| Have a Safe Trip |
7
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| Rockhound Etiquette |
15
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| Sights Along the Way |
18
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| Map Legend |
30
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| South Utah | |
| 1. Central: Agate |
32
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| 2. Hurricane Mesa: Petrified Wood, Agate |
34
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| 3. Gooseberry Mesa: Petrified Wood |
37
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| 4. Cinder Mountain: Petrified Wood |
39
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| 5. Kolob Reservoir: Fossils |
41
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| 6. Cedar City: Minerals |
43
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| 7. Modena Canyon: Obsidian, Chalcedony |
45
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| 8. Brian Head: Agate |
47
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| 9. Cedar Breaks: Agate |
50
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| 10. Twisted Forest: Agate |
52
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| 11. Turnout: Agate |
54
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| 12. Mount Carmel: Septarian Nodules |
56
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| 13. Casto Canyon: Agate |
58
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| Southeast Utah | |
| 14. Sand Creek: Petrified Wood |
61
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| 15. Blue Hills: Agate, Selenite Crystals |
63
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| 16. Caineville: Agate |
65
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| 17. Fossil Shell Hills: Devil's Toenails |
67
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| 18. Old Notom Road 1: Agate |
69
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| 19. Old Notom Road 2: Agate, Calcite Crystals |
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| 20. Notom: Agate |
72
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| 21. The Badlands: Agate |
74
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| 22. Striped Mountain: Petrified Wood, Coprolites |
76
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| 23. Bullfrog Turnoff: Agate, Petrified Wood |
78
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| 24. Shootering Canyon: Agate, Coprolites |
80
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| 25. Hansen Creek: Agate, Petrified Wood |
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| 26. Fry Canyon: Petrified Wood |
84
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| East Utah | |
| 27. San Rafael: Agate, Jasper |
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| 28. Ruby Ranch Road 1: Agate |
90
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| 29. Ruby Ranch Road 2: Agate |
92
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| 30. Ruby Ranch Road 3: Agate |
94
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| 31. Yellow Cat Flat: Agate |
96
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| 32. Yellow Cat Road: Agate |
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| 33. Yellow Cat Fork: Agatized Barite |
100
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| 34. Poison Strip: Agatized Barite |
102
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| 35. Yellow Cat Mine Road: Agatized Barite |
104
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| 36. Bartlett Flat: Agate |
106
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| 37. Muleshoe Canyon: Agate |
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| 38. Looking Glass Road: Agate |
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| 39. Joe Wilson Wash: Agate |
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| North Utah | |
| 40. Sardine Summit: Fossils, Black Horn Coral |
115
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| 41. Riley's Canyon: Red Horn Coral |
117
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| 42. Ophir: Pyrite |
120
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| 43. Tintic Mines: Minerals |
122
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| 44. Eureka: Agate |
124
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| 45. Syringapora Mine: Syringapora |
127
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| 46. Garnet Mine: Garnet |
129
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| Central Utah | |
| 47. Birdseye: Birdseye Marble |
132
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| 48. Nephi: Petrified Palm |
135
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| 49. Nephi: Calcite Onyx |
137
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| 50. Yuba Lake: Birdseye Rhyolite |
139
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| 51. Salina: Wonderstone |
141
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| 52. Last Chance Road: Agate |
143
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| West Utah | |
| 53. Wendover: Agate |
147
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| 54. Gold Hill: Azurite, Malachite |
150
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| 55. Obsidian Hill: Apache Tears |
152
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| 56. Butterscotch Hill: Jasper Pebbles |
154
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| 57. Topaz Mountain: Topaz, Beryl, Garnet |
156
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| 58. Drum Mountains: Agate |
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| 59. Dugway: Geodes |
162
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| 60. Vernon: Wonderstone |
165
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| Southwest Utah | |
| 61. Skull Rock Pass: Fossils |
168
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| 62. Conger Spring: Fossils |
170
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| 63. Painter Spring: Mineral Specimens |
173
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| 64. Fossil Mountain: Fossils |
176
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| 65. Antelope Spring: Trilobite Fossils |
179
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| 66. Sunstone Knoll: Labradorite |
181
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| 67. Black Rock 1: Obsidian |
184
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| 68. Black Rock 2: Obsidian |
187
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| 69. Milford: Obsidian |
189
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| 70. Minersville: Mineral Specimens |
191
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| 71. Beaver: Agate |
193
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| Tools of the Trade |
197
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| Glossary |
199
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| Site Index |
204
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| About the Authors |
205
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