GEOLEX

Summary of Citation: Busby

Publication:
Nolan, T.B., 1930, Paleozoic formations in the Gold Hill
   quadrangle, Utah: Washington Academy of Sciences Journal, v.
   20, no. 17, p. 421-432

Usage in Publication:
Busby quartzite*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Named	Great Basin province	Quartzite Shale

Summary:
Named for Busby Canyon on northeast slope of Dutch Mountain, Gold Hill quad, Tooele Co, UT in the Great Basin province. No type locality designated. Composed of coarse grained quartzite in the basal 50 to 75 ft and thin-bedded, dark quartzite interbedded with green sandy shale in varying proportions in remainder of formation. Shale becomes more abundant upwards. Mud cracks and fucoid markings also abundant upwards. Top placed at base of lowest limestone bed, though similar quartzites and shales occur above the limestone. Averages 440 ft thick. No fossils found. Overlies Cabin shale (new). Underlies Abercrombie formation (new). Of Middle Cambrian age.

Summary of Citation: Busby

Publication:
Palmer, A.R., 1956, The Cambrian system in the Great Basin in
   western United States, IN Rodgers, John, ed., El Sistema
   Cambrico, su paleogeografia y el problema de su base; Symposium;
   Parte II, Australia, America: International Geological
   Congress, 20th, Report, Mexico City, 1956, p. 663-681

Usage in Publication:
Busby quartzite*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Age modified	Great Basin province

Summary:
Age changed from Middle Cambrian to Early Cambrian. Fossil OLENELLUS, an Early Cambrian fossil found near top of Busby in Deep Creek Range, Juab and Tooele Cos, UT in the Great Basin province.

Summary of Citation: Busby

Publication:
Staatz, M.H. and Carr, W.J., 1964, Geology and mineral deposits
   of the Thomas and Dugway Ranges, Juab and Tooele Counties,
   Utah: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 415, 188
   p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:31,680)

Usage in Publication:
Busby quartzite*

Modifications:	Geologic Province:	Dominant Lithology:
Areal limits Overview	Great Basin province

Summary:
Geographically extended east from the Gold Hill district (Nolan, 1935) and Drum Mountains (Crittenden, Straczek, Roberts, 1961) to exposures on east side of Dugway Range, Tooele Co, Great Basin province. Section 160 ft thick measured on ridge 0.7 mi north of Trailer Wash where formation overlies Cabin shale and underlies Shadscale formation (new). Lower contact placed at base of brown- or red-weathering quartzite above siltstone of Cabin. Top placed at base of orange-weathering dolomite at base of Shadscale. Composed of gray, green, to white, medium- to fine-grained, massive quartzite and green-gray to dark green, micaceous siltstone. No fossils found. Assigned to Early Cambrian. Geologic map. Stratigraphic sections.