Usage:
Star Point Sandstone of Mesaverde Group (UT*)
Star Point Sandstone (UT)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Panther Tongue (UT*), Storrs Tongue (UT*).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Star Point, a striking headland headland of Gentry Mountain southwest of Price, and about 3 mi west of southwest corner of Castle Gate quadrangle, [in sec. 7, R. 8 E., T. 15 S., Scofield 15-min quadrangle], Carbon Co., central eastern UT (Spieker and Reeside, 1925).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin*
Uinta basin*
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 ([ ]).