Usage:
Carbon Canyon Member of Galeros Formation of Chuar Group of Grand Canyon Supergroup (AZ*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Carbon Canyon section C, [southwest of Carbon Butte in West Fork Carbon Creek and Lava Creek area, approx. Lat. 36 deg. 10 min. N., Long. 51 deg. 10 min. W., Cape Solitude 7.5-min quadrangle], eastern Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino Co., northern AZ (Ford and Breed, 1973).
Named from Carbon Canyon [derived from Carbon Creek and its East and West Forks which flow through it (AZ-T101, p. 140; U.S. Board on Geographic Names, ca. 2000), Cape Solitude 7.5-min quadrangle], eastern Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino Co., northern AZ (Ford and Breed, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Plateau sedimentary province*
Southern Rocky Mountain region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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