Usage:
Sheeprock Group (UT)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in UT: Auts [Otts] Canyon Formation, Dutch Peak Formation, Ekker Formation, Kelley Canyon Formation.
Geologic age:
Neoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Sheeprock Canyon in T. 10 S., R. 6 W., Tooele Co., UT (Harris, 1958).
Type locality not designated (Cohenour, 1959).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin region
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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