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Geologic Unit: Farmington Canyon

Usage:

Farmington Canyon Complex (UT*)


Geologic age:

Precambrian (Archean and Paleoproterozoic)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: Farmington Canyon and Bountiful Peak, [east of Great Salt Lake, in T. 3 N., R. 1 E., Bountiful Peak and Peterson 7.5-min quadrangles, Wasatch National Forest], Davis Co., north-central UT (Eardley and Hatch, 1940).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Rocky Mountain region*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).