Usage:
Desert Member of Blackhawk Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures in nearly vertical cliffs of Mt. Elliot, east of Desert, a siding of the D. & R.G.W. RR, in T. 20 N., R. 14 E., Emery Co., UT (Young, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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