Usage:
Drip Tank Member of Straight Cliffs Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: east side of small tributary canyon on north side of Drip Tank Canyon, tributary to Last Chance Creek, in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 24, T. 40 S., R. 3 E., Kane Co., UT (Peterson, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Plateau sedimentary province*
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