Usage:
Wales Tongue of Flagstaff Limestone (UT*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Petes Canyon, in SW/2 sec. 35, T. 15 S., R. 2 E., and N/2 sec. 2, T. 16 S., R. 2 E., Sanpete Co., UT. Named from occurrence in Wales Canyon, in sec. 27, T. 15 S., R. 2 E. (Lawton and others, 1993).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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