Smoky Hollow Member of Straight Cliffs Formation
Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
Smoky Hollow Member of Straight Cliffs Formation (UT*)
Age:
Cretaceous, Late*
Turonian, middle*
Turonian, late*
Geologic Province:
Plateau sedimentary province*
Paradox basin*
Areal Extent:
UT(sc)*

Type Locality:
Type section: east side of south-trending spur on west side Smoky Hollow, for which unit is named, a tributary to Warm Creek, NE/4 NE/4 SW/4 sec. 5, T. 42 S., R. 4 E., Kane Co., UT (Peterson, 1969).

Unit Name History:
Named as member, 2nd above base (of 4) of Straight Cliffs Formation (Peterson, 1969). Age modified to middle Turonian to early Coniacian age (Hettinger, 1995).

References

Peterson, Fred, 1969, Four new members of the Upper Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation in the southeastern Kaiparowits region, Kane County, Utah, IN Contributions to stratigraphy, 1968: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1274-J, p. J1-J28.

Hettinger, R.D., 1995, Sedimentological descriptions and depositional interpretations, in sequence stratigraphic context, of two 300-meter cores from the Upper Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Kaiparowits Plateau, Kane County, Utah, IN Sedimentologic and stratigraphic investigations of coal-bearing strata in the Upper Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 2115-A, p. A1-A32.
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