Green River Formation |
| Usage of Geologic Unit Name: Green River Formation (CO*,UT*,WY*) |
| Age: Tertiary* Paleocene* (local) Eocene* |
| Geologic Province: Green River basin* Piceance basin* Uinta basin* Wasatch uplift* Areal Extent: CO(nw)* UT(e)* WY(sw)* |
| Type Locality: Not designated. Probably named for exposures along Green River, Sweetwater Co., WY (Hayden, 1869). |
| Subunits: (alphabetical): Angelo Member (WY*), Anvil Points Member (CO*), Black Sulphur Tongue (CO*), Coughs Creek Tongue (CO*), Cow Ridge Member (CO*,UT*), Douglas Creek Member (CO*,UT*), Dry Fork Tongue (CO*), Evacuation Creek Member (CO,UT), Farson Sandstone Member (WY*), Flagstaff Member (UT*), Fontenelle Tongue (WY*), Fossil Butte Member (WY*), Garden Gulch Member (CO*,UT*), Godiva Rim Member (CO*,WY*), Laney Member (CO*,WY*), Luman Tongue (CO*,WY*) or Luman Member (WY), Middle Fork Tongue (UT), Parachute Creek Member (CO*,UT*), Soldier Summit Member (UT), Stewart Gulch Tongue (CO*), Thirteenmile Creek Tongue (CO*), Tipton Shale Member (CO*,WY*) or Tipton Tongue (CO*,UT,WY*), Wilkins Peak Member (CO*,WY*), Yellow Creek Tongue (CO*). |
| Unit Name History: Named (Hayden, 1869). Revised, divided into named units (Schultz, 1920). Revised (Sears and Bradley, 1924; Bradley, 1926). Overview; Revised, divided into named units (Bradley, 1931). Revised (Donavan, 1950). Revised, divided into named units (Dane, 1954; Pipiringos, 1955). Revised (Bradley, 1959). Anvil Points Member named (Donnell, 1961). Revised (Oriel, 1961; Culbertson, 1962; Oriel, 1962; Love, 1964). Ramsey Ranch Member named (Roehler, 1965). Revised, divided into named units (Ritzma, 1965). Overlies newly named Cedar Breaks Formation (Schneider, 1967). Revised, divided into named units (Moussa, 1969). Revised (Donnell, 1969). Overview; Revised, divided into named units (Oriel and Tracey, 1970). Revised, divided into named units (Roehler, 1973). Areal limits (Cashion and Donnell, 1974). Revised, divided into named units (Duncan and others, 1974). Coughs Creek Tongue named (O'Sullivan, 1975). Age modified locally; Revised (Fouch, 1976). Revised, divided into named units (Hail, 1977). Overview; Revised, divided into named units (Sullivan, 1980). Revised, divided into named units (Johnson, 1984). Areal limits (Fouch and others, 1987). Revised, divided into named units, Godiva Rim Member named (Roehler, 1991). Areal limits; Overview (Roehler, 1992). Overview (Hail, 1992; Remy, 1993). |
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