Usage:
Beers Spring Member of Escalante Desert Formation of Needles Range Group (UT*)
Beers Spring Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
Tertiary, early*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: lower and middle members [units 1 and 2], 6.5 km west of Sawtooth Peak, in SE/4 sec. 24, T. 28 S., R. 19 W., and upper member [unit 3], 1.5 km northeast of Beers Spring, in SW/4 sec. 10, T. 26 S., R. 18 W., Beaver Co., UT (Conrad, 1969).
Reference section: 1-2 km south of Ryan Spring, east of and along an unimproved road leading to Indian Peak, in sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 19 W., Beaver Co., UT (Best and Grant, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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