Usage:
Red Creek Quartzite (CO*,UT*)
Red Creek Complex (CO,UT)
Geologic age:
Late Archean*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Red Creek Canyon at head of Willow Creek. Red Creek Canyon separates Quartz Mountain and Mount Wheeler, northeast corner Uintah Co. [Daggett Co.], UT (Powell, 1876).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region*
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 ([ ]).