Usage:
Henefer Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous to Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Harris Creek Canyon northeast of Henefer, Summit Co., [Henefer and Devils Slide 7.5-min quadrangles], northeastern UT. From Franklin Canyon, [in T. 3 N., R. 4 E., Coalville 7.5-min quadrangle, Summit Co., UT,] westward, forms both sides of Henefer Valley to narrows of Upper Weber Canyon, [at north end of Henefer Valley, in T. 4 N., R. 4 E., Devils Slide 7.5-min quadrangle, Summit Co., UT] (Eardley, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin*
Uinta uplift*
Wasatch uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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