Usage:
Geertsen Canyon Quartzite of Brigham Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Early Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures on ridge west of Geertsen Canyon, 8 km [approx. 5 mi] north of Huntsville, in secs. 18 and 19, T. 17 N., R. 2 E., Weber Co., UT. Named from Geertsen Canyon (Crittenden and others, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).