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Geologic Unit: Butterfield Peaks

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Butterfield Peaks limestone member [informal] of †White Pine Formation (UT-recognized locally in Bingham district) considered invalid and abandoned. Rocks included in Butterfield Peaks Formation of Oquirrh Group. See Butterfield Peaks.)


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (of White Pine Formation): in sec. 22, T. 4 S., R. 3 W., Salt Lake Co., UT. Crops out on slopes of Butterfield Peaks and is well exposed around Long Ridge anticline in southern Oquirrh Mountains and in North Oquirrh thrust block in northern Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake Co. and adjoining Tooele Co., UT. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Butterfield Peaks, UT (Welsh and James, 1961).


AAPG geologic province:

Wasatch uplift
Great Basin province


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