Usage:
Weber Sandstone (CO*,UT*,WY*)
Weber Quartzite (UT*)
Weber Formation of Durst Group (UT)
Subunits:
Schoolhouse Tongue (CO).
Geologic age:
Middle Pennsylvanian to early Permian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Weber Canyon of Wasatch Range, [Weber, Davis, and Morgan Cos.], northeastern UT (King, 1876).
Type section: upper Weber Canyon, east of Morgan, Morgan Co., northeastern UT (Eardley, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin*
Green River basin*
Piceance basin*
Uinta basin*
Uinta uplift*
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 ([ ]).