Usage:
Flagstaff Limestone (UT*)
Flagstaff Formation (UT)
Flagstaff Member of Green River Formation (UT*)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical) --all in UT: /Cove Mountain Member, Ferron Mountain Member, Musinia Peak Member, Wales Tongue.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Paleocene to Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on slopes of Flagstaff Peak, center sec. 13, T. 20 S., R. 5 E., [Flagstaff Peak 7.5-min quadrangle], Sanpete Co., Wasatch Plateau, central eastern UT (La Rocque, 1960).
Named for fact it is prominent in Flagstaff Peak, Wasatch Plateau, central eastern UT (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
Paradox basin*
Uinta basin*
Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).