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Geologic Unit: Cedar City

Usage:

Cedar City Tongue of Kayenta Formation of Glen Canyon Group (UT*)


Geologic age:

Controversial
Triassic, Late*
Jurassic, Early


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

Exposures 2 mi east of Cedar City, east of Red Hill, Iron Co., UT (Averitt and others, 1955).


AAPG geologic 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 ([ ]).