Usage:
Kenilworth Member of Blackhawk Formation of Mesaverde Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near Kenilworth, Carbon Co., UT (Young, 1955).
Type locality stated to be exposures near Kenilworth (Maberry, 1971).
Principal reference section designated on north side of mouth of Fan and Water Canyons, in NW/4 sec. 8, T. 15 S., R. 14 E., Carbon Co., UT (Maberry, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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