Usage:
Henderson Canyon Formation (ID,UT)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Brush Canyon Member (ID,UT), Chinese Wall Member (ID,UT), Devil Creek Member (ID,UT).
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian to early Osagean)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along divide between Gardner and Henderson Canyons in Samaria Mountains, in S/2 sec. 12, T. 16 S., [R. 35 E.], Oneida Co., ID.
Reference section (Holland, 1952) in Leatham Hollow, Cache Co., UT [not described] (Webster and others, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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