Usage:
Green Ravine Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Mississippian (Chesterian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: exposures near the mouth of Green Ravine, in SE/4 sec. 1, T. 2 S., R. 4 W., and NW/4 sec. 6, T. 2 S., R. 3 W., west side of Kessler Peak, northern Oquirrh Mountains, Garfield quadrangle, Tooele Co., north-central UT. Named from Green Ravine (Tooker and Roberts, 1970).
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 ([ ]).