Usage:
Chalk Creek Member of Frontier Formation (UT,WY)
Geologic age:
late Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures north of Chalk Creek Valley, Summit Co., UT (Hale, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin
Uinta uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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