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Geology and Mineralization Connected with the Intrusion of a Quartz Monzonite Porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs District, Utah

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Lewis, Arthur Edward (1958) Geology and Mineralization Connected with the Intrusion of a Quartz Monzonite Porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs District, Utah. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/ZWZP-Z443. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-04022007-152838

Abstract

Iron Mountain is one of three intrusive bodies exposed in the Iron Springs district approximately 15 miles west of Cedar City, Utah. It is the erosional remnant of a quartz monzonite porphyry, intruded into Mesozoic limestone and clastic rocks probably at a depth of less than one mile. The quartz monzonite was intruded in large part along the base of the Carmel formation and has pushed aside the overlying sedimentary rocks as if they were a trap-door hinged on the southeast.

Metamorphism is very weak and is confined for the most part to the Sandy member at the base of the Carmel formation. The Homestake limestone member of the Carmel formation is locally replaced by massive bodies of iron ore, consisting chiefly of magnetite, specularite, carbonates and phlogopite. The mineralization is associated with the quartz monzonite but was not necessarily derived from it. Chemical analyses and the mineralogy of the limestone and the ore show that Ca and CO2 have been removed and important amounts of Fe, Si, Mg, Al and K have been added with no change in volume during replacement of the limestone.

A high temperature and a low confining pressure during mineralization may have permitted the transport of iron halide in a gas phase, but the addition of some of the other constituents and the removal of Ca are not easily accounted for by such a mechanism.

Item Type:Thesis (Dissertation (Ph.D.))
Subject Keywords:(Geology and Economics) ; geology; Iron Mountain; Utah; Carmel Formation, Entrada Formation, metamorphism, iron ore, magnetite, specularite, phlogopite
Degree Grantor:California Institute of Technology
Division:Geological and Planetary Sciences
Major Option:Geology
Minor Option:Economics
Thesis Availability:Public (worldwide access)
Research Advisor(s):
  • Noble, James A.
Thesis Committee:
  • Unknown, Unknown
Defense Date:1 January 1958
Non-Caltech Author Email:alewis.mvca (AT) comcast.net
Additional Information:Supplemental Files Information: Geologic map of Iron Mountain: Supplement 1 from "Geology and mineralization connected with the intrusion of a quartz monzonite porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs district, Utah" (Thesis). Date(s) Collected: 1955/1956. Geologic sections of Iron Mountain: Supplement 2 from "Geology and mineralization connected with the intrusion of a quartz monzonite porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs district, Utah" (Thesis). Geologic sections of Iron Mountain (part 2): Supplement 3 from "Geology and mineralization connected with the intrusion of a quartz monzonite porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs district, Utah" (Thesis). Sections of McCahill ore body: Supplement 4 from "Geology and mineralization connected with the intrusion of a quartz monzonite porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs district, Utah" (Thesis). Sections of McCahill ore body (part 2): Supplement 5 from "Geology and mineralization connected with the intrusion of a quartz monzonite porphyry, Iron Mountain, Iron Springs district, Utah" (Thesis).
Record Number:CaltechETD:etd-04022007-152838
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-04022007-152838
DOI:10.7907/ZWZP-Z443
Related URLs:
URLURL TypeDescription
https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.812DOISupplement 1 in CaltechDATA: Geologic map of Iron Mountain
https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.813DOISupplement 2 in CaltechDATA: Geologic sections of Iron Mountain
https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.814DOISupplement 3 in CaltechDATA: Geologic sections of Iron Mountain (part 2)
https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.815DOISupplement 4 in CaltechDATA: Sections of McCahill ore body
https://doi.org/10.22002/D1.816DOISupplement 5 in CaltechDATA: Sections of McCahill ore body (part 2)
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ID Code:1251
Collection:CaltechTHESIS
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Deposited On:05 Apr 2007
Last Modified:16 Oct 2023 22:08

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