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Show Colorful, Descriptive Names Now Official For 3 Sites The Department of Interior's Board on Geographic Names has approved three new place names in Utah based on applications by the Utah Geological Survey All apply to previously unnamed topographic features, according to Survey Director William P Hewitt A mesa in the Circle Cliffs area. Garfield County, three miles west-southwest of Wagon Box Mesa, was designated Bitumen Mesa for the exten slve outcrop areas of bitumen -saturated sandstone which occur on all sides and beneath the mesa In the Orange Cliffs area of Garfield County, two features. Tar Cliff and Fault Point, were given official designation Tar Cliff, named for extensive seepages of tar which flow down the cliff face, Is Just south of Red Point and three miles north of the junction of Cove Canyon and Cataract Canyon In lake Powell. Fault Point, which takes Its name from a colorful cross-section exposure of a fault, is located two miles northwest of the iunction of Cove Canyon and Cataract Canyon and is about three miles south of Tar Cliff All of the new names result from detailed field mapping of oil-impregnated sandstone deposits by the Utah Geological Survey headquartered on the University of Utah camp us. Field mapping has been dt rected by Survey geologists as sisted by student geologists from the U. of U The names Tar Cliff and Fault Point had previously been applied to newly discovered deposits of oil-Impregnated sandstone within a larger area known as the Tar Sand Triangle located in extreme northeastern Garfield County and adjoining Wayne County. |