Usage:
Mackentire Tongue of Woodside Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
Permian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures at mouth of Mackentire Draw, a small tributary of West Fork of Lake Fork, in sec. 27, T. 2 N., R. 5 W., Uinta Base and Meridian, Duchesne Co., northern UT (Williams, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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