Usage:
Samaria Limestone Member of Hyrum Formation (UT)
Samaria Limestone Member of Hyrum Dolomite (UT)
Samaria Limestone Member of Jefferson Formation (ID,UT)
Geologic age:
Middle to Late Devonian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured along east-west ridge crest, beginning 3.7 mi (6 km) west-northwest of Portage, in sec. 34, T. 15 N., R. 4 W., Box Elder Co., northeastern UT. Named from Samaria Mountain, Oneida Co., ID (Beus, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin 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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