- Usage in publication:
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- Hanauer formation*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Dolomite
- Quartzite
- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. 8 (table 4), 59-61, pI. 1. Hanauer formation. Consists of light- to dark-gray, fine- to medium-grained dolomite and, in upper part, some gray limestone, both interbedded with fine- to medium-grained, gray to white, brown-weathering, locally cross-bedded, calcareous quartzite. Thickness 481 feet at type section. Correlated with Pinyon Peak limestone. Overlies Gilson dolomite (new), basal contact placed at lowest quartzite above gray dolomite (Gilson); underlies Madison limestone equivalent, upper contact placed at top of thick massive quartzite. Fossiliferous (brachiopods, pelecypods, gastropods). Age is Late Devonian. Report includes geologic map.
Type section: on Hanauer Ridge in northeastern part of Dugway Range, in sec. 36, T. 9 S., R. 12 W., Dugway Range NW 7.5-min quadrangle, Tooele Co., northwestern UT.
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 317-318); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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