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Geologic Unit: Pine Canyon

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Pine Canyon Limestone (UT) replaced with Deseret Limestone. See Deseret.)


Geologic age:

Mississippian


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

Named from Pine Canyon, in T. 10 S., R. 2 W., Eureka 7.5-min quadrangle, Juab and Utah Cos., UT (Loughlin, IN Lindgren and Loughlin, 1919).


AAPG geologic province:

Wasatch uplift
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 ([ ]).