Usage:
Axtell Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary or Quaternary (Pliocene or Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: stretch about 2 mi east of Axtell on eastern margin of Sevier Valley between abandoned plant of Great Western Salt Company (now abandoned) and Willow Creek, [in secs. 22 and 27, T. 20 S., R. 1 E., Redmond 7.5-min quadrangle, Sanpete Co.], central UT (Spieker, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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