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Geologic Unit: Buckhorn

Usage:

Buckhorn Conglomerate Member of Cedar Mountain Formation (CO*,UT*)
[?] Buckhorn Conglomerate (CO)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: Buckhorn Flat, on southwest flank of Cedar Mountain, [Buckhorn Reservoir and Bob Hill Knoll 7.5-min quadrangles], Emery Co., central eastern UT (Stokes, 1944).


AAPG geologic province:

Green River basin
Paradox basin*


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 ([ ]).