Usage:
Bingham Mine Formation of Oquirrh Group (UT*)
Subunits:
(ascending): Clipper Ridge Member (UT*), Markham Peak Member (UT*).
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian to Virgilian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in secs. 6, 7, 18, 19, 20, and 21, T. 4 S., R. 3 W., and in sec. 12 T. 4 S., R. 4 W., Fairfield, Stockton, and Bingham Canyon quadrangles, UT (GNC index card files).
Reference section: north side of West Canyon, opposite Maple Canyon, in north-central part sec. 27 and south-central part sec. 22, T. 4 S., R. 3 W., Fairfield quadrangle, UT (GNC index card files).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).