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Geologic Unit: Clear Creek

Usage:

Clear Creek Tuff Member of Dry Hollow Formation (UT)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene


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

Not designated. Named from exposures along Clear Creek, west of Cove Fort, Sevier Co., UT (Caskey and Shuey, 1975).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province
Wasatch uplift


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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