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  • Usage in publication:
    • High Creek Limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Wasatch uplift
Publication:

Oriel, S.S., Armstrong, F.C., Fritz, W.H., and Palmer, A.R., 1971, Uppermost Precambrian and lowest Cambrian rocks in southeastern Idaho, with contributions to early Middle Cambrian faunal zones: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 394, 52 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp394]


Summary:

Named for High Creek. Type section designated in sec 11, T14N, R2E, Cache Co, UT in Wasatch uplift. Ranges from thin bedded to very dark gray limestone with numerous shale partings to thick bedded, medium to light gray limestone with abundant intraformational conglomerates, oolites and Girvanella. Overlies and intertongues with Brigham Quartzite and Spence Tongue of Lead Bell Shale. Underlies Cub Shale Member of Ute Limestone, or Cub Tongue of Lead Bell Shale. Is of Middle Cambrian age.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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