Usage:
No current usage.
(†Bald Knoll Formation (UT) replaced with informal "formation of Aurora".)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: at mouth of Bald Knoll Canyon in southern Valley Mountains, [in T. 21 S., R. 1 W., Redmond Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle], Sevier Co., central UT (Gilliland, 1949; 1951).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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