Usage:
Mount Watson Formation of Uinta Mountain Group (UT)
Geologic age:
Precambrian, late
Proterozoic, Middle
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Mount Watson, southwest Summit Co., UT in the Uinta Mountains (Sanderson, 1984).
Unit stratotype designated in secs. 25 and 36, T. 1 S., R. 8 E., and in secs. 30 and 31, T. 1 S., R. 9 E. (Sanderson, 1984).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
Uinta 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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