Usage:
Topliff Limestone Member of Great Blue Formation (UT*)
Geologic age:
Mississippian, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on north side of Edwards Canyon, in S/2 SE/4 sec. 31, T. 8 S., R. 3 W., and N/2 NE/4 sec. 6, T. 9 S., R. 3 W., Tooele Co., UT. Named from abandoned Topliff quarries near Topliff Hill (Morris and Lovering, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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