Usage:
Water Canyon Formation (ID*,UT*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in UT: Card Member, Grassy Flat Member.
Geologic age:
Early Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in Water Canyon, a tributary of Green Canyon, in sec. 4, T. 12 N., R. 2 E., Logan quadrangle, Cache Co., northern UT (Williams, 1948).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province
Wasatch uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).