Usage:
[?] Castle Creek Soil of Beaver Basin Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Holocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
At confluence of Castle and Placer Creeks in Castle Valley, in NW/4 SW/4 sec. 8, T. 25 S., R. 23 E., Paradox basin, Grand Co., UT (Richmond, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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