Usage:
Sawtooth Peak Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Sawtooth Peak, in northwest part T. 28 S., R. 18 W., Beaver Co., UT (Conrad, 1969).
Location clarified: in NE/4 sec. 15, T. 28 S., R. 18 W. (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.
"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 ([ ]).