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Elephant Canyon Formation

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Type
  
Formation

Country
  
Region
  
Utah: Paradox basin

Primary
  
Sandstone

Unit of
  
Cutler Formation

Overlies
  
Other
  
Limestone, siltstone, shale

Named for
  
Type section: Elephant Canyon, secs. 4 and 9, T. 30 S., R. 19 E., San Juan County, Utah

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.

References

Elephant Canyon Formation Wikipedia


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