Usage:
Aberdeen Member of Blackhawk Formation of Mesaverde Group (UT*)
Aberdeen Sandstone Member of Blackhawk Formation of Mesaverde Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures near Aberdeen Mine, northeast of Kenilworth, Book Cliffs, Castlegate 15-min quadrangle, west Carbon Co., central eastern UT (Clark, 1928).
[Aberdeen Mine, Lat. 39 deg. 42 min. 18 sec. N., Long. 110 deg. 47 min. 19 sec. W., Helper 7.5-min quadrangle, Carbon Co., UT.]
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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