Usage:
Alpine Formation of Lake Bonneville Group (ID*,UT*)
Alpine Member of Little Cottonwood Formation of Lake Bonneville Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from town of Alpine, northern Utah Valley (Bissell, unpub. thesis; Bullock, 1951) .
Reference section: in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 14, T. 3 S., R. 1 E., Salt Lake Co., UT (Morrison, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
Great Basin province*
Snake River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).