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Geologic Unit: Pulpit

Usage:

Pulpit Conglomerate (UT)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Paleocene, middle
Dragonian
Torrejonian


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

Not designated. Named from Pulpit Rock at mouth of Echo Canyon, in T. 3 N., R. 5 E., Summit Co., UT (Eardley, 1944).


AAPG geologic province:

Uinta uplift


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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