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Geologic Unit: Mount Dutton

Usage:

Mount Dutton Formation (UT*)


Subunits:

(alphabetical): Antimony Tuff Member (UT*), Beaver Member (UT*), Kingston Canyon Tuff Member (UT*).


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Miocene*


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

Type section: from NE/4 NE/4 sec. 9 to center sec. 15, T. 32 S., R. 4 W., on Mount Dutton, southern Sevier Plateau, Garfield Co., UT. Named from Mount Dutton (Anderson and Rowley, 1975).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*
Paradox 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 ([ ]).