Usage:
Moody Canyon Member of Moenkopi Formation (UT)
Subunits:
Steer Mesa facies (informal).
Geologic age:
Early to Middle(?) Triassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type section: measured along an east-west line exactly 2.16 mi (3.5 km) due south of the 5728 BM on Horse Pasture Mesa, Circle Cliffs, Garfield Co., Utah. The section continues up prominent rounded point to west of road (Ron Blakey, personal commun., June 9, 2000, via Thomas J. Messenger, NSSC).]
Type section: Moody Canyon, along southwest side of Circle Cliffs, about 1 mi north of where Moody Creek enters the canyon, in T. 34 S., R. 7 E., Garfield Co., UT (Blakey, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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