Sunnyside tar sand deposit: data and references from industrial exploration projects (OFR-566) culture geotourism places of interest

geotourism places of interest

Through this mixing

These stockmen were the first homesteaders in Nine Mile Canyon

and hike for days through the lush woodland of the Gila Wilderness in complete solitude

These maps are used for regional and statewide planning and land management

Sunnyside tar sand deposit: data and references from industrial exploration projects (OFR-566) culture geotourism places of interestBy: J. W. Gwynn The Sunnyside tar sand deposit, one of the largest in Utah, is located in Carbon County, about 25 to 30 miles east of Price, near Bruin Point on the Roan Cliffs. The majority of the bituminous zones are stratigraphically contained within Eocene sandstone bodies representing deltaic facies deposited near the shoreline of Lake Uinta. Amoco Minerals Company donated a large volume of corporate exploration data on the Sunnyside tar sand