Usage:
Bauers Tuff Member of Condor Canyon Formation of Quichapa Group (NV*,UT*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (earliest Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Bauers Knoll, in sec. 3, T. 36 S., R. 12 W., Iron Springs district, Cedar City NW 7.5-min quadrangle, Iron Co., southwestern UT. Named from Bauers Knoll (Mackin, 1960; see also Averitt, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
South Western Overthrust*
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 ([ ]).