Usage:
Canaan Peak Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary(?) (Campanian to Paleocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: south face Canaan Peak, at head of Wahweap Creek, in SE/4 NW/4 sec. 9, T. 37 S., R. 1 E., Garfield Co., UT. Named from Canaan Peak (Bowers, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin*
Plateau sedimentary province
Great Basin province
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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).