Usage:
/Pole Canyon Member of Oquirrh Formation (UT)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Pole Canyon Limestone of Drewes and Palmer (1957) in NV.]
Geologic age:
Late Pennsylvanian (Virgilian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
On east-trending spur on west side of Pole Canyon, in secs. 2 and 11, T. 6 S., R. 3 W., Utah Co., UT. Named from Pole Canyon (Bissell, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
Great Basin province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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