Usage:
San Pitch Formation of Indianola Group (UT*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (middle to late Albian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: near Christianburg, at southern end of San Pitch Mountains, from SE/4 SE/4 sec. 12 to NE/4 NE/4 sec. 13, T. 19 S., R. 1 E., Sterling 7.5-min quadrangle, Sanpete Co., central UT (Sprinkel and others, 1999).
Reference sections --in central UT (Sprinkel and others, 1999): (1) Chicken Creek section, in SW/4 SE/4 sec. 2, T. 15 S., R. 1 E., Chriss Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle, Juab Co.; (2) Little Salt Creek section, in SW/4 SW/4 sec. 33, T. 15 S., R. 1 E., Chriss Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle, Juab Co.; and (3) in SE/4 NE/4 sec. 33, T. 21 S., R. 1 E., Salina 7.5-min quadrangle, Sevier Co.
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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