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Geologic Unit: Jesse Ewing Canyon

Usage:

Jesse Ewing Canyon Formation of Uinta Mountain Group (UT)


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section (composite): five measured sections in Jesse Ewing Canyon, in sec. 36, T. 3 N., R. 24 E., sec. 1, T. 2 N., R. 24 E., and secs. 6 and 7, T. 2 N., R. 25 E., northeast Daggett Co., northeast UT (Sanderson and Wiley, 1986).


AAPG geologic province:

Southern Rocky Mountain region


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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