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Geologic Unit: Phoenix
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Phoenix limestone lentil*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Marble
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Keith, Arthur, 1905, Areal geology of the Bingham district, Part I, IN Boutwell, J.M., Economic geology of the Bingham mining district, Utah, with a section on areal geology by Arthur Keith and an introduction on general geology by Samuel Franklin Emmons: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 38, p. 29-70. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp38]


Summary:

Pg. 44, map, sections. Phoenix limestone lentil of Bingham quartzite (new). Consists of white or light-colored marble. Thickness 0 to 300 feet; maximum thickness southeast of Petro mine. Age is late Carboniferous [Pennsylvanian] based on fossils. [Sections show it some distance above Tilden limestone lentil (new).]
Crops out at mouth of Phoenix mine, Bingham mining district, north-central Utah

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 1650); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Phoenix Limestone Lentil†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Tooker, E.W., and Roberts, R.J., 1970, Upper Paleozoic rocks in the Oquirrh Mountains and Bingham mining district, Utah, with a section on biostratigraphy and correlation by Mackenzie Gordon, Jr., and Helen M. Duncan, IN Geologic studies of the Bingham mining district, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 629-A, p. A1-A76. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp629A]


Summary:

Phoenix Limestone Lentil of Bingham Quartzite of Keith (1905) is abandoned as formally named unit. It is herein considered to be an informal marker bed. Bingham Quartzite is also abandoned and is replaced by Oquirrh Formation as defined by Gilluly (1932).

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


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