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Tule Valley
1859: White Valley
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Shadow on the eponymic white rocks of the
Tule Valley, November 2009
Tule Valley is located in Utah
Tule Valley
Tule Valley
Location in Utah
Tule Valley is located in the United States
Tule Valley
Tule Valley
Location in the United States
Floor elevation 4,780 ft (1,460 m)
Area 248 sq mi (640 km2)
Geography

Tule Valley (also known as White Valley) is a valley in Millard County, Utah, United States.

Geographic features

Tule Valley's most prominent feature may be Coyote Springs, an important spring system for local wildlife and feral horses which populate the valley. It is also used as a gateway to viewing and traveling toward the base of Notch Peak, a 4,450 foot carbonate rock cliff (2,200 foot of which is pure vertical drop), the tallest carbonate cliff in North America. The name "Tule" is a reference to a swamp plant that probably was found at Coyote Springs during early exploration of the valley.

The valley itself is very isolated, and only has one paved road through its southern end, US Highway 6/US Highway 50. There are no permanent human residents of the valley, though shepherds are known to populate it in the spring. The center of the valley is a large playa, the place where all precipitation from the drainage basin collects, since it is an isolated basin and watershed. This is the location of the lowest point in Millard County, Utah.

Geology

The geology of Tule Valley consists of Quaternary alluvial sediments punctuated by chalky white Pleistocene marls. The valley is a true graben in the sense that it is down-faulted by normal faults on both sides of the valley. The knolls in the valley are horsts of Silurian to Devonian carbonates.

Tule Valley watershed

The Tule Valley hydrologic unit is an area of several Utah valleys and ridgelines of the Basin and Range Province. The endorheic watershed's volume of surface water averages 4,000 acre-feet (4,900,000 m3).

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