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Geologic Unit: Ferron Mountain

Usage:

Ferron Mountain Member of Flagstaff Limestone (UT)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Paleocene, late


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

Cliffs and slopes along south face of Ferron Mountain, in sec. 32, T. 19 S., R. 5 E., Wasatch Plateau, Sanpete Co., UT (Stanley and Collinson, 1979).


AAPG geologic province:

Wasatch uplift


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

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