Usage:
Kayenta Formation of Glen Canyon Group (AZ*,CO*,UT*)
Kayenta Formation (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Cedar City Tongue (UT*), Tenney Canyon Tongue (AZ*,UT*).
Geologic age:
Controversial.
Late(?) Triassic or Early Jurassic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in Comb Ridge, 1 mi northeast of Kayenta, [in northwest corner of Kayenta East 7.5-min quadrangle], Navajo Co., Navajo Indian Reservation, northeastern AZ (Baker and others, 1936).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Mesa basin*
Great Basin province*
Paradox basin*
Plateau sedimentary province*
San Juan basin*
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 ([ ]).