Utah Stratigraphic Columns    (overview page)

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Stratigraphy of
Oquirrh Mtns - Bingham/Magna
Period
 Formation / Members  Thick-  ness Rock Type

QUAT

Alluvium & Lake Bonneville deposits

0-1000

  

Harkers Alluvium

0-250

  

MIO - PLEIST

Valley fill in Tooele Valley

0-12000

  

OLIG

Shaggy Peak rhyolite plug

NULL

  

EOCENE

Quartz latite porphyry dikes

NULL

  

Bingham & Last Chance qtz monzonite

NULL

  

PERMIAN

Grandeur Limestone, Park City Group

760

  

Diamond Creek Sandstone

2000

  

Kirkman Limestone

400

  

Oquirrh Group

Freeman Peak Formation (Clinker-rings when struck)

2400

  

Curry Peak Formation

2450

  

PENN

Bingham Mine Formation

7300

  

Bingham Mine Formation

100-200

  

Bingham Mine Formation

100-300

  

Butterfield Peaks Formation

9100

  

West Canyon Limestone

1060-1450

  

Data Sources:
*Still Gathering/Under Construction*
USGS Special Publications by Various Authors
Roadside Geology of Utah by Halka Chronic
Field Guide: Northern Colorado Plateau by Keith Rigby
Geologic History of Utah by Lehi Hintze- Purchase Information





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