- Usage in publication:
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- Juab limestone
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Named as one of six formations of Pogonip group for Juab Co., UT in the Great Basin province. Type locality designated as Ibex section J in NE1/4 sec 31, T22S, R14W where it is a medium gray calcisiltite 139 ft thick that overlies Wah Wah limestone (new) of Pogonip and underlies Kanosh shale (new) of Pogonip. Is very fossiliferous. Assigned an Ordovician age.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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