Usage:
Table Butte Tuff Member of Leach Canyon Formation of Quichapa Group (NV*,UT*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Table Butte, in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 5, T. 34 S., R. 14 W., [Avon NW 7.5-min quadrangle], Escalante Desert, Iron Co., southwestern UT (Williams, 1967; see also Rowley and others, 1975, and Anderson and Rowley, 1975).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
South Western Overthrust*
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 ([ ]).