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Geologic Unit: Fitchville

Usage:

Fitchville Formation (UT*)


Geologic age:

Late Devonian to Early Mississippian (Famennian to Kinderhookian)*


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

On Fitchville Ridge, in NE/4 NW/4 sec. 19, T. 10 S., R. 2 W., Utah Co., UT (Morris and Lovering, 1961).


AAPG geologic province:

Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).