Usage:
Deadman Spring Dolomite of Pogonip Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in NW/4 NE/4 sec. 10 [or sec. 9?], T. 11 S., R. 14 W., Juab Co., UT. Named from nearby Deadman Spring, northeastern Fish Springs Range (Oliveira, 1975).
[US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1520, p. 81) states type section is in sec. 9. Uncertain if typographical error. --unresolved.]
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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