State | Utah |
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Name | Salt Lake Formation and other Basin & Range valley-filling alluvial, lacustrine, and volcanic materials |
Geologic age | Middle Miocene to Late Pliocene |
Lithologic constituents |
Major
Unconsolidated > Coarse-detrital (Alluvial)
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mixed-clastic (Bed)
Minor
Sedimentary > Chemical > Evaporite > Salt (Bed)
Sedimentary > Carbonate (Bed)
Igneous > Volcanic > Felsic-volcanic (Pyroclastic)
Incidental
Igneous > Volcanic > Mafic-volcanic (Flow)
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References | Hintze, L.F., 1980, Geologic map of Utah: Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, scale 1:500,000.Hintze, L.F., 1988, Geologic History of Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies Special Publication 7, 202 p. |
NGMDB product | |
Counties | Beaver - Box Elder - Juab - Millard - Tooele |