Usage:
Bowman Limestone (UT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Bowman Gulch, northwest of Ophir, [in NW/4 sec. 23, T. 5 S., R. 4 W., Ophir 7.5-min quadrangle], Tooele Co., Oquirrh Mountains region, central northern UT (Gilluly, 1932).
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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