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Geologic Unit: Yampa

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Yampa Limestone Lentil of Bingham Quartzite (UT*-recognized locally in Bingham district) abandoned. Rocks reallocated to Bingham Mine Formation of Oquirrh Group. See Bingham Mine.)


Geologic age:

Pennsylvanian*


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

Named from Yampa Mine, Bingham district, north-central UT (Keith, 1905).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*


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 ([ ]).