Usage:
Lamerdorf Tuff Member of Escalante Desert Formation of Needles Range Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
East of Willow Creek Spring, and west and south of Bucket Ranch Spring, from SE/4 sec. 2, T. 29 S., R. 16 W., to S/2 sec. 4, T. 29 S., R. 15 W., Wah Wah Mountains, Lamerdorf Peak 7.5-min quadrangle, Beaver Co., UT. Named from Lamerdorf Peak, in sec. 18, T. 29 S., R. 15 W., Beaver Co., UT (Campbell, 1978).
Reference section: lower tuff in sec. 33, T. 26 S., R. 18 W. ; upper tuff is northwest of Lund (Campbell, 1978).
Type locality: in secs. 1, 2, and 12, T. 29 S., R. 16 W., and in sec. 5, T. 29 S., R. 15 W., Beaver Co., UT (Best and Grant, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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