Usage:
Box Canyon Member of Mutual Quartzite (UT)
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Box Canyon, a tributary to Red Pine Creek near forks in Smith and Morehouse Canyon of western Uinta Mountains (Williams, 1953).
[Box Canyon in secs. 13, 24, 25, R. 7 E., T. 1 S., Erickson Basin 7.5-min quadrangle, Summit Co., Wasatch National Forest, northeastern UT.]
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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