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Life cycle of the Phosphoria Formation :

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0444419322

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0444511326

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9780444419323

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9780444511324

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Title Proper

Life cycle of the Phosphoria Formation :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

from deposition to the post-mining environment /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by James R. Hein

Edition Statement

First edition

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxv, 635 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color), maps ;

Dimensions

25 cm +

Accompanying Material

1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Series Title

Handbook of exploration and environmental geochemistry ;

Volume Designation

v. 8

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Text of Note

"This book provides the results of a multifaceted, multidisciplinary, multi-agency program headed by the US Geological Survey to study to 350,000 square kilometer Western US Phosphate Field. The program addresses mainly the Permian Phosphoria Formation (the world's largest phosphate deposit), including the nature of the Phosphoria sea, resource-reserve estimates, mineralogical-geochemical-tectonic evolution of the deposit, and present-day contaminant issues associated with release of selenium from waste-rock dumps produced during mining. This latter issue involves surface and ground water, soil, biota, and rock studies. The Phosphoria Formation occurs over extensive regions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, where there are five operating mines that collectively produce about 15% of the US production of phosphate. Vanadium was also mined up until 1999 from the Phosphoria and the deposit was considered at one time as a potential source for uranium. The Phosphoria Formation is a world-class deposit and knowledge grained from these studies can be applied to many other deposits world-wide. This book will be of interest to environmental geologists and biologists, economic geologists, mineralogists, sedimentologists, oceanographers, geochemists, among others from industry, Federal-State-local governmental agencies, and academia"--Back cover

Text of Note

The CD accompanying this book is in a hybrid format that combines both ISO 9660 and Mac OS Standard (JFS) formats on a single CD and should be readable by most personal computers

Geology, Stratigraphic-- Permian

Sedimentation and deposition-- West (U.S.)

Phosphoria Formation

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Hein, James R.

Date of Transaction

20161206141414.0

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