Usage:
Colton Formation (UT*)
Subunits:
Tabbyune Creek Tongue (UT).
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Eocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Implied to be exposures in hills north of Colton, Utah Co., UT (Spieker, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin*
Paradox basin*
Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).