Usage:
Chicken Creek Tuff Member of Goldens Ranch Formation (UT*-recognized locally in Juab Co.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene; Duchesnean NALMA)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures 8 to 10 mi southwest of Levan, just southwest of Chicken Creek Reservoir on east side of Highway 91, in sec. 19, T. 15 S., R. 1 W., Skinner Peaks 7.5-min quadrangle, Juab Co., central UT (Evernden and James, 1964; Felger and others, 2007).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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