Usage:
Bluebell Dolomite (UT*-local)
Recognized locally in East Tintic Mountains and Goshen-Northern Long Ridge area.
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all locally recognized in East Tintic mining district, UT: Beecher beds, Dora Member, /Eagle Member, Noah Member.
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician (Ashgillian), early Silurian (Llandovery), and Middle Devonian (Eifelian? to Givetian?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Bluebell Mine, [near Eureka in T. 10 S., R. 2 W., Juab Co., Tintic district, central northern UT] (Loughlin, IN Lindgren and Loughlin, 1919).
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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