- Usage in publication:
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- Blue Gate sandstone*
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Paradox basin
Summary:
Pg. 4+. Blue Gate sandstone. Heavy-bedded yellow sandstone, 500 feet thick, underlying Masuk shale and overlying Blue Gate shale in Blue Gate Plateau. Present in Henry Mountains region, [Wayne and Garfield Counties], central southern Utah. Age is Late Cretaceous.
[GNC remark (ca. 1938, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, p. 219): Blue Gate sandstone member of Mancos shale. Now treated by USGS as a member of Mancos shale in Henry Mountains region.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 219).
- Usage in publication:
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- Bluegate sandstone
- Modifications:
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- Not used
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Paradox basin
Summary:
Pg. 84. Emery sandstone member of Mancos shale extended into Henry Mountains; replaces Bluegate sandstone [Blue Gate sandstone] as used by Gilbert (1877).
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 395).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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