Usage:
North Wash facies (informal) in Torrey Member of Moenkopi Formation (UT)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Early Triassic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from North Wash, a tributary of the Colorado River, about 2 mi south of mouth of Dirty Devil River, Garfield and Wayne Cos., UT (Blakey, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin
Plateau sedimentary 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 ( ).
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