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Geologic Unit: Silver Shield

Usage:

Silver Shield Quartz Latite (UT*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Miocene, middle*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Northeast of Silver Shield (Independence) shaft, in SE/4 sec. 35, T. 9 S., R. 2 W., and adjacent parts of secs. 1 and 2, T. 10 S., R. 2 W., East Tintic mining district, northeast Eureka 7.5-min quadrangle, Utah Co., UT (Morris and Lovering, 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.

"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 ([ ]).