Usage:
Wales Canyon Tuff Member of Dry Hollow Formation (UT)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Exposures on east side of Wales Canyon, near Cove Fort, north of U.S. Interstate Highway I-70, and UT Highway 4, Millard Co., UT. Named from Wales Canyon, Millard Co., UT (Caskey and Shuey, 1975).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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