Usage:
No current usage.
(†Wasatch Limestone (UT) abandoned. Replaced with Brazer Limestone, Madison Limestone, Threeforks [Three Forks] Limestone, Jefferson Dolomite, Laketown Dolomite, and Fish Haven Dolomite. See Brazer, Madison, Three Forks, Jefferson, Laketown, and Fish Haven.)
Spelled Wahsatch in some early reports.
Geologic age:
Paleozoic (Early and Late Ordovician, Silurian, Middle and Late Devonian, and Early Mississippian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in northern Wasatch Mountains, northeastern UT (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Wasatch uplift
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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