- Usage in publication:
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- Box Canyon member
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Shale
- Sandstone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Southern Rocky Mountain region
Summary:
Pg. 2737 (fig. 2), 2738. Box Canyon member of Mutual quartzite. Sequence of buff quartzitic sandstones and brown micaceous shales at top of Mutual quartzite. Intertongues in places with purple beds. Thickness 820 feet at Box Canyon. Underlies Red Pine shale (new). Occurs in northeastern Utah. Age is Precambrian.
Top of member exposed precisely at mouth of Box Canyon, a tributary to Red Pine Creek near forks in Smith and Morehouse Canyon of western Uinta Mountains. Member exposed upstream from mouth of Box Canyon.
[Box Canyon in secs. 13, 24, 25, R. 7 E., T. 1 S., Erickson Basin 7.5-min quadrangle, Summit Co., Wasatch National Forest, northeastern UT.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 446).
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