Usage:
Lake Point Limestone of Oquirrh Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Late*
Chesterian, late*
Pennsylvanian, Early*
Morrowan*
Pennsylvanian, Middle*
Atokan*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: west side of Kessler Peak, in NE/4 sec. 6, T. 2 S., R. 3 W., and SW/4 sec. 31, T. 1 S., R. 3 W., Garfield quadrangle, Tooele Co., UT. Named from town of Lake Point, south of Great Salt Lake (Tooker and Roberts, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
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 ([ ]).