Pavant Thrust, Central Utah

 Sevier-Laramide Project:

The Pavant Thrust near Fillmore, Utah

See one of Utah's best-exposed thrust faults in the scenic and accessible Pavant Mountains!

Notes

Travel:  Fillmore has hotels and accommodations, and is located conveniently along Interstate 15.

Access:  The canyon and mountain roads provide good access into the mountains.  They're rocky and steep in places, requiring tires and clearance appropriate for the terrain.  I'd only take a car into the lower parts of either canyon.

Camping:  Chalk Creek and Kanosh Canyons have good campgrounds and primitive campsites.

Geologic map of the Pavant Range, from the Richfield 30 x 60 minute geologic map by Hintze and others, 2003 published by the Utah Geological Survey, Map 195.  GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE RICHFIELD 30' x 60' QUADRANGLE, SOUTHEAST MILLARD COUNTY AND PARTS OF BEAVER, PIUTE, AND SEVIER COUNTIES, UTAH by Lehi F. Hintze1,2, Fitzhugh D. Davis2, Peter D. Rowley3, Charles G. Cunningham4, Thomas A. Steven4, and Grant C. Willis2 2003

Google Earth view northward from Corn Creek Canyon.  The Pavant thrust is shown in red, taken from the geologic map.  Notice the change in topography across the thrust, with steeper slopes and cliffs in the Cambrian layers east of the thrust.

View to the west of the thrust in Corn Creek Canyon.

View to the north above Corn Creek Canyon, showing the Pavant thrust.

Google Earth view of the central and northern Pavant Range.  The Pavant thrust is shown in red.

View to the south of the thrust from Sand Rock Ridge Road.

View to the north from Sand Rock Ridge Road.

The Canyon Range is visible north of the Pavant Range.  Both expose important Sevier thrust faults and folds.

The Pavant thrust is exposed in Chalk Creek Canyon, where the fault and strata are steeply tilted.

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