Usage:
/Cove Mountain Member of Flagstaff Limestone (UT)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Cove Mountain Formation by Cook (1960) in NV and UT]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Paleocene
Eocene, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
South side of Cove Mountain, in NW/4 sec. 2, T. 19 S., R. 4 E., and SW/4 sec. 35, T. 18 S., R. 4 E., Ferron Reservoir 7.5-min quadrangle, Sanpete Co., UT (Stanley and Collinson, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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