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  • Usage in publication:
    • Wanship formation
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Central Western Overthrust
Publication:

Williams, N.C., and Madsen, J.H., Jr., 1959, Late Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Coalville area, Utah, IN Williams, N.C., ed., Guidebook to the geology of the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains transition area: Intermountain Association of Petroleum Geologists, Guidebook for the Annual Field Conference, no. 10, p. 122-125.


Summary:

Pg. 122-123. Wanship formation. In Coalville area, [Summit County], Utah, formation is about 4,950 feet thick. Unconformably overlies Frontier formation; underlies Echo Canyon conglomerate (new). Unit has been considered part of Frontier formation which is herein restricted to exclude unit termed Wanship. Age is Late Cretaceous (Niobrara).

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 4122); supplemental information from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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