Usage:
Kessler Canyon Formation of Oquirrh Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian, Late*
Virgilian*
Permian, Early(?)*
Wolfcampian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: lower part in sec. 30, T. 1 S., R. 3 W.; upper part in center SE/4 sec. 27, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., southeast to center west side NE/4 sec. 35, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., Oquirrh Mountains, Salt Lake Co., UT. Named from prominent north-flowing stream at north end of Oquirrh Mountains (Tooker and Roberts, 1970).
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.
"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 ([ ]).