Elephant Canyon Formation

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Elephant Canyon Formation
Stratigraphic range: Permian
Type Formation
Unit of Cutler Group[1]
Underlies Cedar Mesa Sandstone[2]
Overlies Unconformity on the Pennsylvanian Honaker Trail Formation [2]
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Other Limestone, siltstone, shale[2]
Location
Region Utah: Paradox basin[1]
Country United States
Type section
Named for Type section: Elephant Canyon, secs. 4 and 9, T. 30 S., R. 19 E., San Juan County, Utah[1]
Named by Baars, D. L., 1962[1]

The Elephant Canyon Formation is the basal Permian geologic formation of the Cutler Group overlying an unconformity on the Pennsylvanian Honaker Trail Formation in the Paradox Basin of southern Utah.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Elephant Canyon of Cutler Group, USGS
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Rock Sequence of the Canyonlands Area
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