Elephant Canyon Formation Stratigraphic range: Permian |
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Type | Formation |
Unit of | Cutler Group |
Underlies | Cedar Mesa Sandstone |
Overlies | Unconformity on the Pennsylvanian Honaker Trail Formation |
Lithology | |
Primary | Sandstone |
Other | Limestone, siltstone, shale |
Location | |
Region | Utah: Paradox basin |
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 |
Named by | Baars, D. L., 1962 |
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.