Usage:
Decathon Member of Laketown Dolomite (NV,UT)
Decathon Member of Laketown Dolostone (UT)
Geologic age:
Silurian (Wenlock to Ludlow?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Decathon Canyon [in T. 10 N., R. 70 E., White Pine Co., eastern NV], one of the principal drainage channels of the southern Snake Range, west of Big Springs Ranch (Rush, 1956).
Reference section: Tony Grove Lake, Bear River Range, in SW/4 SW/4 sec. 6 (unsurveyed), T. 13 N., R. 3 E., northeastern Cache Co., UT (Budge and Sheehan, 1980).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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