Burbank Hills

The Burbank Hills are a small northwest-southeast mountain range in western Utah, United States[1] that lie entirely within the Hamlin-Snake Watershed, between the Snake Range and the Ferguson Desert.[2] It is bounded by Snake Valley to the north, west, and south; and trends into the Tunnel Springs Mountains, to the southeast, opposite the Antelope Valley on its southeast border. It was named after the settlement of Burbank, Utah, and Margie Burbank Clay, the wife of local Judge E. W. Clay in the 1870s.

The Burbank Hills at sunset

The Burbank Hills has numerous ATV trails[3] and fossils.[4]

Geology

The structural trend of rocks in the range is similar to rocks in the northern Mountain Home Range to the southwest and Conger Range and central Confusion Range to the northeast. These are chiefly Devonian to Permian carbonate rocks arranged in a massive 30-by-50-mile (48 by 80 km) syncline.[5][6]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Burbank Hills
  2. Water Resources (PDF) (Report). Reconnaissance Series. Carson City: NV Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-28. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  3. "West Desert ATV Trails". Utah.com. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
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  5. Halka Chronic, 1990, Roadside Geology of Utah, ISBN 0-87842-228-5
  6. Hintze and Davis, 2002, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE WAH WAH MOUNTAINS NORTH 30′ x 60′ QUADRANGLE AND PART OF THE GARRISON 30′ x 60′ QUADRANGLE, SOUTHWEST MILLARD COUNTY AND PART OF BEAVER COUNTY, UTAH, ISBN 1-55791-584-9

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