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Geologic Unit: Straight Canyon

Usage:

Straight Canyon Formation (UT*)


Geologic age:

Late Cambrian*


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

Type section: along the ridge 1 mi south of Straight Canyon, in T. 10 S., R. 11 W., Tooele Co., UT. Named from exposures near Straight Canyon, east-central side of Dugway Range, Tooele Co., UT (Staatz and Carr, 1964).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*


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 ([ ]).