Uranium and Diagenesis in Evaporitic Lacustrine Mudstone of the Oligocene White River Group, Dawes County, Nebraska

Download or read book Uranium and Diagenesis in Evaporitic Lacustrine Mudstone of the Oligocene White River Group, Dawes County, Nebraska written by Kendell A. Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oligocene White River Group consists of the Chadron and the overlying Brule Formations in northwestern Nebraska. The Chadron Formation consists of alluvial and colluvial vitric mudstone beds, but in addition contains white persistent layers (purplish-white layers) that probably resulted from soil formation on vitric parent material. West of the current study area a basal sandstone facies of the Chadron is host rock for the Crow Butte uranium deposit. The Brule, which consists mostly of pedogenically altered alluvial and fluvial vitric mudstone deposits, contains a uraniferous lacustrine facies northwest of Chadron, Nebraska.