Usage:
Trippe Limestone (UT*)
Subunits:
Fish Springs Member (UT*).
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures in Trippe Gulch, south side of North Pass Canyon, in T. 9 S., R. 18 W., Deep Creek Mountains, Gold Hill quadrangle, Tooele Co., UT (Nolan, 1930).
[Hintze and Robison (1975) consider the type section to be on the ridge south Dry Canyon, in N/2 sec. 33, T. 9 S., R. 18 W., northern Deep Creek Range, Tooele Co., UT.]
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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