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Geologic Unit: Little Valley

Usage:

Little Valley Alloformation (UT*)


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Pleistocene)*


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

Type section: exposure in north wall of large gravel pit in Little Valley, in SE/4 NE/4 sec. 1, T. 6 N., R. 6 W., Box Elder Co., UT. Named from Little Valley (McCoy, 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.

"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 ([ ]).