Usage:
Moroni Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene to early Oligocene; Duchesnean to Chadronian NALMA) and late Tertiary (late early to early middle Miocene; Arikareean to Hemingfordian NALMA)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for the town of Moroni [Moroni 7.5-min quadrangle, Sanpete Co., north-central UT], with type locality at The Cliff, nearby (Schoff, 1938).
Type locality: highest point in Cedar Hills, about 7 mi north-northeast of Moroni, known locally as The Cliff, Sanpete Co., north-central UT (Phillips, 1962).
AAPG geologic province:
South Western Overthrust*
Wasatch uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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