The Confusion Range is a north-south trending mountain range in west-central

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, United States. It is bounded by Snake Valley to the west, Tule Valley to the east, the

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to the north, and the

Ferguson Desert The Ferguson Desert is a small valley in the Hamlin-Snake Watershed of west-central Utah, southeast of the Snake Valley to the northwest, and is bound by the Burbank Hills to the west, the Tunnel Springs Mountains, Pine Valley, and Wah Wah Val ...

to the south. The range trends into the Burbank Hills, Mountain Home Range, and the Wah Wah Mountains to the south. In the central part of the range, an offshoot of the mountains to the west is known as the

Conger Range The Conger Range, also called the Conger Mountains, is a mountain range in Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, beginning about west of Mount Osborne. It is part of the Arctic Cordillera The Arctic Cordillera is ...

. The Confusion Range is named for its "rugged isolation and confusing topography."Van Cott, J. W., 1990, Utah Place Names, The highest peaks in the range are

Conger Mountain Conger Mountain is a mountain in Millard County, Utah. It is located 60 miles west of Delta, Utah. Wildlife Conger Mountain is almost completely undeveloped. It serves as a habitat for mule deer and antelope and is home to a herd of wild h ...

, which is 7,713 feet tall, and King Top , which is 8,350 feet tall. The geology of the Confusion range is deformed

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Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Pale ...

limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms wh ...

s, dolomites, and

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especia ...

s.Chronic, Halka, 1990, Roadside Geology of Utah, There are three main ways to travel through the Confusion Range: *Around the north end, from

Callao, Utah Callao ( ) is a community in northern Snake Valley, along the border of Juab and Tooele counties, Utah, United States. Description The community was part of the original Pony Express overland route, and was first called Willow Springs in 1860. ...

Sand Pass Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class of s ...

*On old Highway 6/50, on a dirt road through

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*On US Highway 6/

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, through Kings Canyon (Utah)

References

{{Authority control Mountain ranges of Utah Mountain ranges of Juab County, Utah Mountain ranges of Millard County, Utah Mountain ranges of the Great Basin