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Geologic Unit: Willow Spring

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Willow Spring Member of Chainman Formation (UT) replaced with Willow Gap Limestone Member of Chainman Formation. See Willow Gap.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Willow Spring Granodiorite of Ransome (1903) in AZ, and Willow Spring Member of Cove Mountain Formation of Cook (1960) in UT.]


Geologic age:

Mississippian


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not stated. Occurs in Silver Island Range, western UT. Origin of name not stated authors (Arnold and Sadlick, 1962).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province


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