Colorado River Basin Stratigraphy

North Horn Formation

Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
North Horn Formation (UT*)

Age:
Cretaceous, Late*
Campanian, late*
Maastrichtian*
Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Thanetian*
Eocene* (local)
Ypresian, late*

Geologic Province:
Uinta basin*
Wasatch uplift*
Paradox basin*

Areal Extent:
UT*

Type Locality:
On North Horn Mountain, for which unit is probably named, T. 18 and 19 S., R. 6 E., Emery Co., UT (Spieker, 1946).
Principal reference section designated in Price Canyon in NE part sec. 21 and SW part of sec. 15, T. 12 S., R. 9 E., Carbon Co, UT (Fouch and others, 1987).

Subunits:
Joes Valley Member (UT).

Unit Name History:
Name credited to E.M. Spieker. First used (S.L. Schoff, 1938, Ohio State Univ. Abs. Doctor's Dissert. 25, p. 379) [Geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1200]. Revised, Joes Valley Member named (Gazin, 1941). Formally named (Spieker, 1946). Revised, underlies newly named Cedar Breaks Formation (Schneider, 1967). Areal limits (Young, 1976; Fouch, 1976). Age modified (Fouch and others, 1983). Principal reference section (Fouch and others, 1987). Overview (Witkind, 1988). Areal limits; Overview (Bryant and others, 1990). Revised, divided into informal units (Lawton and others, 1994).

References

Gazin, C.L., 1941, The mammalian faunas of the Paleocene of central Utah, with notes on the geology: U.S. National Museum Proceedings, v. 91, no. 3121, p. 53.

Spieker, E.M., 1946, Late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic history of central Utah, IN Shorter contributions to general geology, 1943-45: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 205-D, p. D117-D161.

Schneider, M.C., 1967, Early Tertiary continental sediments of central and south-central Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 14, p. 143-194.

Fouch, T.D., 1976, Revision of the lower part of the Tertiary system in the central and western Uinta basin, Utah, IN Contributions to stratigraphy: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1405-C, p. C1-C7.

Young, G.E., 1976, Geology of the Billies Mountain quadrangle, Utah County, Utah: Brigham Young University Geology Studies, v. 23, pt. 1, p. 205-280.

Fouch, T.D., Lawton, T.F., Nichols, D.J., Cashion, W.B. and Cobban, W.A., 1983, Patterns and timing of synorogenic sedimentation in Upper Cretaceous rocks of central and northeast Utah, IN Reynolds, M.W., and Dolly, E.D., editors, Mesozoic paleogeography of the west-central United States: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Rocky Mountain Section, Rocky Mountain Paleogeography Symposium, v. 2, p. 305-336.

Fouch, T.D., Hanley, J.H., Forrester, R.M., Keighin, C.W., Pitman, J.K. and Nichols, D.J., 1987, Chart showing lithology, mineralogy, and paleontology of the nonmarine North Horn Formation and Flagstaff Member of the Green River Formation, Price Canyon, central Utah; a principal reference section: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1797-A, 8 p., 1 sheet.

Witkind, I.J., 1988, Geologic map of the Huntington 30' x 60' quadrangle, Carbon, Emery, Grand, and Uintah Counties, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-1764, 1 sheet, scale 1:100,000.

Bryant, B.H., Naeser, C.W., Marvin, R.F. and Mehnert, H.H., 1990, Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sedimentary rocks and isotopic ages of Paleogene tuffs, Uinta basin, Utah, IN Evolution of sedimentary basins; Uinta and Piceance basins: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1787-J, p. J1-J22.

Lawton, T.F., Talling, P.J., Hobbs, H.C., Trexler, J.H., Jr., Weiss, M.P. and Burbank, D.W., 1993, Structure and stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene strata (North Horn Formation), eastern San Pitch Mountains, Utah; Sedimentation at the front of the Sevier orogenic belt, IN Evolution of sedimentary basins; Uinta and Piceance basins: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1787-II, p. II1-II33, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:12,000).

Difley, Rose Luverne, 2002, Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) North Horn Formation in the Wasatch Plateau, central Utah: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, masters thesis.

Loewen, Mark A., Sampson, Scott D., Getty, Mike A., and Difley, Rose L., 2001, The upland dinosaur fauna of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North Horn Formation: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 21, no. 3, Supplement, p.74.

Cifelli, Richard L., Nydam, Randall L., Eaton, Jeffrey G., Gardner, James D., and Kirkland, James I., 1999, Vertebrate faunas of the North Horn Formation (Upper Cretaceous-lower Paleocene), Emery and Sanpete counties, Utah: In, Vertebrate paleontology in Utah: Gillette, David D., ed., Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publication v. 99-1, p. 378-388.

Difley, Rose., and Ekdale, A. A., 1999, Biostratigraphic aspects of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) boundary interval at North Horn Mountain, Emery County, Utah: In, Vertebrate paleontology in Utah: Gillette, David D., Utah Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Publication v. 99-1, p. 389-398.

Lawton, Timothy F., Talling, Peter J., Hobbs, Robert S., Trexler, James H, Jr., Weiss, Malcolm P., Burbank, Douglas W., 1993, Structure and stratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene strata (North Horn Formation), eastern San Pitch Mountains, Utah., sedimentation at the front of the Sevier orogenic belt: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin B 1787-II, p.II1-II33.

* show accepted USGS usage.
Note that data on this page contains information that has been partly revised from bibliographic resources available via the National Geologic Map Database GEOLEX:
http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/geolex_qs.html.

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