Usage:
Ridgeland Formation of Lake Bonneville Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Holocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: west bank of Ridgeland Canal, in SW/4 SE/4 sec. 20, T. 1 S., R. 1 W., Lat. 40 deg. 42 min. 50 sec. N., Long. 111 deg. 58 min. 17 sec. W., Salt Lake City South 7.5-min quadrangle, Salt Lake Co., UT. Named from Ridgeland Canal (Van Horn, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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