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Geologic Unit: Wallaces Peak

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Wallaces Peak Tuff Member of Needles Range Formation (UT) is synonym of Three Creeks Tuff Member of Bullion Canyon Volcanics. See Three Creeks.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Oligocene


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

North slope of Wallaces Peak, in sec. 11, T. 27 S., R. 15 W., Beaver Co., UT (Best and others, 1973).


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.

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