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,

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to the east, the

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to the north, and the Ferguson Desert to the south. The range trends into the Burbank Hills, Mountain Home Range, and the

Wah Wah Mountains The Wah Wah Mountains are a north-south trending Mountain range, range in Iron County, Utah, Iron, Beaver County, Utah, Beaver, and Millard County, Utah, Millard counties in west-central Utah, United States part of the larger Basin and Range Provi ...

to the south. In the central part of the range, an offshoot of the mountains to the west is known as the

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. 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.

Geology

The geology of the Confusion range is deformed

Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 23.5 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the third and shortest period of t ...

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and System (stratigraphy), 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 251.902 Mya. It is the s ...

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

s, dolomites, and

shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of Clay mineral, clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., Kaolinite, kaolin, aluminium, Al2Silicon, Si2Oxygen, O5(hydroxide, OH)4) and tiny f ...

s.Chronic, Halka, 1990, Roadside Geology of Utah,

Roads

There are three main ways to travel through the Confusion Range: *Around the north end, from Callao, Utah to Sand Pass *On old Highway 6/50, on a dirt road through Cowboy Pass *On US Highway 6/ US Highway 50, 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