Usage:
Indianola Group (UT*)
Indianola Formation (UT)
Subunits:
GROUP STATUS (alphabetical) --all in UT*: Allen Valley Shale, Funk Valley Formation, San Pitch Formation, Sanpete Formation, Sixmile Canyon Formation.
Geologic age:
Cretaceous (Albian to Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: Indianola district, [Manti sheet (scale 1:250,000), Sanpete and Utah Cos.], UT (Spieker, 1946).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).