Usage:
Meadow Canyon Member of Oquirrh Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Derryan
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Meadow Canyon, west of Lewiston Peak in secs. 29 and 32, T. 5 S., R. 3 W., Tooele Co., UT. Named from Meadow Canyon (Bissell, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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