Utah Stratigraphic Columns    (overview page)

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Stratigraphy of
Leamintgton Canyon - Canyon/Gilson Mtns

Period
 Formation / Members  Thick-  ness Rock Type

QUAT

Alluvium & Lake Bonneville sediments

0-600

 

OLIG - PLIO

terrestrial shale with some sandstone and siltstone

1940

 

halite and minor anhydrite and bentonitic claystone

5150

 

pink to red conglomerate

30

 

OLIG

Andesitic rocks of Sage Valley

0-200

 

Fool Creek Conglomerate

3800

 

CRET - PALE

Red beds of Wide Canyon

1200

 

Canyon Range Formation (Conglomerate of Leamington Pass of Higgins)

2500

 

CAMB

Undifferentiated limestone & dolomite

3600

 

Wheeler Shale

0

 

Swasey Limestone

1200

 

Whirlwind Formation

100

 

Dome Limestone

600

 

Chisholm Formation

140

 

Howell Limestone

180

 

Pioche Formation

250

 

Prospect Mountain Quartzite

300

 

pC (PROT)

Mutual Formation

750

 

Inkom Formation

2700

 

"Caddy Canyon Quartzite"

2400

 

"Papoose Creek Formation"

300

 

"Black rock Canyon Limestone"

750

 

Pocatello Formation"

Upper member

720-900

 

Middle member

1300

 

Lower member

600

 

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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