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Geologic Unit: Garden City

Usage:

Garden City Limestone (ID*,UT*)
Garden City Formation (ID*,UT*)


Geologic age:

Ordovician, Early*
Ordovician, Middle*


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

Not designated. Named from exposures in Garden City Canyon, a tributary of Bear Lake, Rich Co., UT (Richardson, 1913).


AAPG geologic province:

Wasatch uplift*
Great Basin province*
Snake River basin*


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 ([ ]).