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  • Usage in publication:
    • Red Warrior limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Butler, B.S., 1913, Geology and ore deposits of the San Francisco and adjacent districts, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 80, 212 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Named for Red Warrior mine, T28S, R11W, Beaver Co, UT in the Great Basin province. No type locality designated. Mapped in south part of area in T28S, R11W, being exposed in a belt one-half to three-fourths of a mile wide. Is underlain by Morehouse? quartzite, a covered contact, of Silurian age. Is conformably overlain by Mowitza shale (new) of Devonian age. Covers about 1 sq mi of the Star district. Approximately 1,500 ft thick. Consists of heavy-bedded blue, dolomitic and in part siliceous, limestone. Lenses of quartzite present in lower part. Few beds of gray limestone in upper part. The limestone has been intruded and altered. An offshore deep water deposit. No fossils found. Silurian? and Devonian? age assignment based on stratigraphic position and on regional correlation with other rocks.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Red Warrior Limestone*†
  • Modifications:
    • Abandoned
Publication:

Sandberg, C.A., and Poole, F.G., 1977, Conodont biostratigraphy and depositional complexes of Upper Devonian cratonic-platform and continental-shelf rocks in the western United States, IN Murphy, M.A., and others, eds., Proceedings of the 1977 annual meeting of the Paleontological Society on Devonian of western North America: University of California-Riverside, Campus Museum Contributions, Paleontological Society, 1977 annual meeting, Riverside, CA, November, 1977, no. 4, p. 144-182.


Summary:

Red Warrior Limestone abandoned. Its rocks reassigned to the lower part of the Upper Devonian Pinyon Peak Limestone, the Devonian Sevy Dolomite, Simonson Dolomite, and Guilmette Formation, and to the Silurian Laketown Dolomite.

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


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