Usage:
No current usage.
(†Eureka Limestone (preoccupied) (UT*) replaced with †Mammoth Limestone, which in turn was divided into 9 formations of Cambrian and Ordovician age by Lindgren and Loughlin (1919, USGS Prof. Paper 107).)
Geologic age:
Carboniferous, Early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Section measured in Tintic district, between east side of Eureka Peak to Quartzite Ridge, in T. 10 S., R. 2 and 3 W., Juab Co., UT (Tower and Smith, 1899).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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