Usage:
Browns Hole Formation of Brigham Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Middle Fork of Ogden River on slopes northwest of Browns Hole, 11 km [approx. 7 mi] northeast of Huntsville, near center sec. 14, T. 7 N., R. 2 E., Browns Hole quadrangle, Weber Co., UT. Named from Browns Hole (Crittenden and others, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
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 ( ).
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