Utah Stratigraphic Columns    (overview page)

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Stratigraphy of
Black Mountains - Star Range

Period
 Formation / Members  Thick-  ness Rock Type

QUAT

Alluvium & eolluvium

0-100

 

PLIOCENE

Dissected fan deposits in Big Wash

0-500

 

MIOCENE

Steamboat Mountain Fm

Rhyolite mbr

0-150

 

Basalt mbr

0-150

 

Felsite & aplite dikes

intrusive

 

Granite near Shauntie

pluton

 

Monzonite

pluton

 

Quartz monzonite

pluton

 

Blawn Fm

Rhyolite member

0-200

 

Mafic lava flow mbr

0-600

 

Tuff member

0-2000

 

OLIG

Isom Formation

20-150

 

Three Creeks Tuff Mbr, BCV

0-50

 

Needles Range Group

Lund Tuff

250

 

Wah Wah Springs Fm

100-700

 

Cottonwood Wash T

0-30

 

Escalante Desert F

0-200

 

Horn Silver Andesite

0-100

 

Andesite of Shaunite Hills

0-1500

 

Conglomerate of High Rock Pass

50

 

JURASSIC

Navajo Sandstone

600-1000

 

TRIASSIC

Chinle Fm

Upper member

400-530

 

Shinarump Cg M

50-200

 

Moenkopi Fm

Upper red member

700-1300

 

Virgin Ls Member

100-250

 

Lower red member

300-340

 

Timpoweap Member

600-720

 

PERMIAN

Plympton Formation

100-390

 

Kaibab Limestone

350-600

 

Toroweap Formation

380-440

 

Talisman Quartzite

680-730

 

Pakoon Dolomite

270-400

 

PENN

Callville Limestone

200-500

 

MISS

Manning Canyon Shale

60 +

 

Great Blue limestone

100-1000

 

Humbug Formation

350-430

 

Deseret Ls

Uncle Joe Mbr

120

 

Tetro Member

500

 

Gardison Limestone

100

 

DEV

Fitchville Formation

30

 

Pinyon Peak Ln

Upper member

180

 

Lower member

250

 

Guilmette Formation

450

 

Simonson Dolomite

500

 

Sevy Dolomite

340

 

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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