Usage:
Bonneville Alloformation (ID,UT*)
Bonneville Formation of Lake Bonneville Group (UT*)
Bonneville Formation (ID*)
Bonneville Member of Little Cottonwood Formation of Lake Bonneville Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Forms thin and discontinuous beach deposit along old Lake Bonneville shore line. Deposits encircle Lake Mountain.
Reference locality designated at excavation site northeast of Salt Lake City water purification plant, at approx. NE corner SE/4 sec. 2, T. 3 S., R. 1 E., Salt Lake Co. area, UT on Wasatch uplift (Morrison, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
Great Basin province*
Snake River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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