Usage:
Otts Canyon Formation of Sheeprock Group (UT)
Spelled Auts Canyon and Aut's Canyon in early reports.
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Aut's [Otts] Canyon, [in T. 10 and 11 S., R. 5 and 6 W.], Dutch Peak area, Sheeprock Range, [Dutch Peak 7.5-min quadrangle], Juab and Tooele Cos., west-central UT (Harris, 1958).
Type section: from SW/4 sec. 36, T. 10 S., R. 6 W., across Otts Canyon into Pole Canyon, in NW/4 sec. 31, T. 10 S., R. 5 W., Dutch Peak 7.5-min quadrangle, Juab and Tooele Cos., UT (Christie-Blick, 1982).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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