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Geologic Unit: Lukachukai

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Lukachukai Member of Wingate Sandstone (AZ,CO,NM,UT) reallocated to Wingate Sandstone. See Wingate.)


Geologic age:

Early Jurassic


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

Type locality: sandstone that forms vertical cliff on escarpment northeast of Lukachukai, Apache Co., northeastern AZ. Present throughout most of the Navajo Indian Reservation (Harshbarger and others, 1957).


AAPG geologic province:

Black Mesa basin
Paradox basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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