Usage:
Maple Canyon Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Near mouth [and/or?] on northwest side of Maple Canyon, [4 km (approx. 2.5 mi) northeast?] of Hunstville, from N/2 sec. 9 to center sec. 4, T. 6 N., R. 2 E., Weber Co., UT. Named from exposures in Maple Canyon, [about 6 mi east?] of Huntsville (Crittenden and others, 1971).
[Discrepancy in GNU records concerning location of type. --unresolved.]
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Rocky Mountain region*
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 ( ).
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