Usage:
High Creek Limestone (ID*,UT*)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: at High Creek, 11 km northeast of Richmond, in sec. 11, T. 14 N., R. 2 E., Cache Co., UT. Named from High Creek. (Oriel and others, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
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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