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Geologic Unit: Mount Laird

Usage:

Mount Laird Tuff (UT*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Eocene, late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Exposures near Mount Laird in Drum Mountains, in sec. 23 and 26, T. 14 S., R. 11 W., Juab Co., UT (Lindsey, 1979).


AAPG geologic province:

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 ([ ]).