Usage:
Markham Peak Member of Bingham Mine Formation of Oquirrh Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Missourian to Virgillian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured ridge between Spring and Dry Canyons, in secs. 30 and 31, T. 3 S., R. 3 W.; and Markham Peak, in secs. 21 and 22, T. 3 S., R. 3 W., Tooele and Salt Lake Co., UT. Named from Markham Peak, central Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele Co., UT (Tooker and Roberts, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).