Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Uinta Quartzite, †/Uinta Sandstone, or †/Uinta Group (CO,UT) replaced with Uinta Mountain Group. See Uinta Mountain.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Uinta Formation of Marsh (1871) in same area.]
Geologic age:
Precambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Forms crest and core of main axis of Uinta Mountains, northeastern UT, and extends east into northwestern CO, nearly as far as junction of Little Snake and Yampa Rivers (Powell, 1876).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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