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Geologic Unit: Gerster

Usage:

Gerster Formation (UT*)
Gerster Formation of Park City Group (NV*,UT*)
Gerster Limestone of Park City Group (NV*,UT*)


Geologic age:

Middle Permian (Guadalupian; Wordian)*


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

Named from exposures in Gerster Gulch, in northwestern corner of Gold Hill 15-min quadrangle [1975 ed.], Gold Hill district, Tooele Co., western UT (Nolan, 1930; see also Nolan's USGS Prof. Paper 177, 1935).


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.

"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 ([ ]).