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Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Nolan, T.B., 1930, Paleozoic formations in the Gold Hill
   quadrangle, Utah: Washington Academy of Sciences Journal, v.
   20, no. 17, p. 421-432
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon formation*

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Areal limits
 Great Basin province
 

Summary:
Represents a westward extension of name into the Gold Hill quad, western Tooele Co, UT in the Great Basin province. Composed of dark quartzite, sandy shale, and black shale. Limestone beds found locally. Thickness varies from a few ft to 1,000+ ft. Is fossiliferous. Assigned a Mississippian? and Pennsylvanian (Pottsville) age.
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Gilluly, James, 1932, Geology and ore deposits of the Stockton
   and Fairfield quadrangles, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey
   Professional Paper, 173, 171 p.
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon shale*

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Named
 Wasatch uplift
Great Basin province
 Shale
Limestone

Summary:
Named for exposures in Manning Canyon, Utah Co, UT on the Wasatch uplift. Extends westward into Tooele Co, UT in the Great Basin province. Mapped as a band between the upper limestone of the Great Blue limestone and the base of the newly named Oquirrh formation. No type locality designated. Rocks assigned were included in the upper part of the original Great Blue limestone. Forms valleys. Is impervious to water, hence many springs in the valleys. Exposures are poor. Lower contact exposed in a few places. Contact with underlying Great Blue is gradational over 200 to 300 ft; contact placed at base of a predominantly shale section. Section 1,140 ft thick measured in Soldier Canyon, north of Ophir in Tooele Canyon. Consists of interbedded dark-gray to black shale; gray, thin-bedded, ledge-forming limestone; and one brown-weathering quartzite conformably below the Oquirrh and the measured section. Ranges from 750 ft thick west of Lewiston Peak to 1,140 ft thick at Hall Canyon and Soldier Creek. Fossils of Chester and Pennsylvanian age listed (pelecypods, brachiopods, etc.). Assigned to the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian. Stratigraphic chart.
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Nygreen, P.W., 1958, The Oquirrh Formation; stratigraphy of the
   lower portion in the type area and near Logan, Utah: Utah
   Geological and Mineral Survey Bulletin, no. 61, 67 p.
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon Formation

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Revised
 Wasatch uplift
 

Summary:
Upper contact revised in that Manning Canyon formation underlies the newly named West Canyon Limestone Member, basal member of Oquirrh formation in Cache and Utah Cos., UT on the Wasatch uplift. The Manning Canyon-West Canyon contact as described is a calcareous bleached siltstone (Manning Canyon) overlain by dark gray calcisiltite or calcilutite (West Canyon). Of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian age.
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Bissell, H.J., 1959, Pennsylvanian System, IN Geology of the
   southern Oquirrh Mountains and Fivemile Pass; northern Boulter
   Mountain area, Tooele and Utah Counties, Utah: Utah Geological
   Society, Guidebook to the geology of Utah, no. 14, p. 93-127
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon shale

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Revised
 Wasatch uplift
Great Basin province
 

Summary:
Upper contact revised in that Manning Canyon shale underlies the newly named Hall Canyon member of Morrowan age, basal member of the Oquirrh formation. Contact is transitional. Contact placed where limestones or locally where calcareous orthoquartzites (Hall Canyon) predominate over black and brown shales (Manning Canyon). Mapped on two geologic maps as a Pennsylvanian and Mississippian unit above the Great Blue limestone, but no other descriptive information concerning the Manning Canyon included in report. Mapped in the southern Oquirrh Mountains area, and Fivemile Pass and northern Boulter Mountain quads., Utah Co. (Wasatch uplift) and Tooele Co. (Great Basin province), UT.
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Tooker, E.W. and Roberts, R.J., 1970, Upper Paleozoic rocks in
   the Oquirrh Mountains and Bingham mining district, Utah: U.S.
   Geological Survey Professional Paper, 629-A, p. A1-A76
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon Shale*

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Revised
 Wasatch uplift
 

Summary:
Revised in that Manning Canyon Shale underlies the West Canyon Limestone (revised from West Canyon Limestone Member of Oquirrh Formation), basal formation of the Oquirrh Group (rank raised) in Bingham Canyon area, Utah Co, UT on the Wasatch uplift. Of Late Mississippian age.
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Skipp, Betty and Hall, W.E., 1980, Upper Paleozoic paleotectonics
   and paleogeography of Idaho, IN Fouch, T.D., and Magathan,
   E.R., eds., Paleozoic paleogeography of the west-central
   United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and
   Mineralogists, Rocky Mountain Section, Rocky Mountain
   Paleogeography Symposium, v. 1, p. 387-422
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon Shale*

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Age modified
 Great Basin province
 

Summary:
Age of the Manning Canyon Shale is revised from Late Mississippian and Early Pennsylvanian to: Late Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian.
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Marvin, R.F. and Mehnert, H.H., 1988, Radiometric ages; compilation
   "C", U.S. Geological Survey; Part two, Arizona and New Mexico:
   Isochron/West, no. 51, p. 5-13
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon Shale*

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Isotopic dating
 Great Basin province
 

Summary:
Several samples taken from Black Pine Mountains area, Strevell 15 min quad, Cassia Co, ID, Great Basin province, and isotopically dated (K-Ar method) by Smith (1982, 1983), who collected them in an effort to define the time of thrusting, an important feature of the tectonic picture of this area. The thermal regime indicated by color-alteration indices of conodonts as reported by Smith (1983) would have reset the K-Ar ages of minerals in the sedimentary rocks. If this thermal regime was a result of thrusting, then the youngest K-Ar ages may indicate the approximate time of the last thrusting event. The samples of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks gave K-Ar dates ranging from Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, a 35-m.y. spread. Possible explanations are: 1) the sediments were deeply buried and thus entered a zone of elevated temperatures for an extended time; they were then uplifted and/or thrust-faulted and exposed about 100-70 Ma ago; or 2) sediments were affected by a thermal regime that accompanied the thrust-faulting about 90-80 Ma ago. At the present time, evidence is inconclusive to substantiate either hypothesis. All samples are argillite from Manning Canyon Shale (Mississippian and Pennsylvanian), which is part of an allochthonous block in this area. The reduced K-Ar age is a result of thermal event(s).
Summary of Citation: Manning Canyon

Publication:
Davis, L.E., Webster, G.D. and Dyman, T.S., 1994, Correlation
   of West Canyon, Lake Point, and Bannock Peak limestones (Upper
   Mississippian to Middle Pennsylvanian), basal formations of
   the Oquirrh Group, northern Utah and southeastern Idaho, IN
   Johnson, S.Y., coordinator, Evolution of sedimentary basins,
   Cenozoic sedimentary basins in southwest Washington and
   northwest Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 2088, 30
   p.
Usage in Publication:
Manning Canyon Shale*

Modifications: Geologic Province: Dominant Lithology:
 Revised
 Great Basin province
 

Summary:
Upper contact revised in the Chesterian Manning Canyon Shale underlies: 1.) the newly named Bannock Peak Limestone, basal formation of the Oquirrh Group in southeast ID, and 2.) the West Canyon Limestone, basal formation of the Oquirrh Group in the Grassy, Cedar, Stansbury, Lake, Timpanogos, and southern Oquirrh Mountains of north-central UT. Bannock Peak replaces use of West Canyon in southeast ID. Area studied lies in the Great Basin province.