Usage:
Longwall Sandstone Member of Frontier Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
late Early Cretaceous (Albian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from a sandstone "wall" known locally as the Longwall, near Coalville, Summit Co., UT (Hale, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta uplift
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