Colorado River Basin Stratigraphy

Tipton Shale Member of Green River Formation

Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
Tipton Tongue of Green River Formation (CO*,UT*,WY*)
Tipton Shale Member of Green River Formation (CO*,UT*,WY*)

Age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, late early*

Geologic Province:
Green River basin*
Uinta uplift*

Areal Extent:
CO(nw)*
UT(ne)*
WY(sw)*

Type Locality:
Not designated. Named for exposures near Tipton, a station on the Union Pacific RR, T. 19 N., R. 96 W., Sweetwater Co., WY (Schultz, 1920).
Principal reference section: 6 mi east of Tipton Station, sec. 19, T. 18 N., R. 97 W., Carbon Co., WY (Roehler, 1968).

Subunits:
(alphabetical): Rife Bed (CO*,WY*), Sheggs Bed (CO*,WY*).

Unit Name History:
Named as a member of Green River Formation (Schultz, 1920). Revised, redesignated as Tipton Tongue of Green River Formation (Sears and Bradley, 1924). Revised; Overview (Pipiringos, 1955). Overview (Love, 1964). Principal reference; Revised (Roehler, 1968). Overview (Roehler, 1969). Overview; Areal limits (Sullivan, 1980). Areal limits; Revised, divided into Scheggs and Rife Beds (Roehler, 1991).

References

Schultz, A.R., 1920, Oil possibilities in and around Baxter basin, in the Rock Springs uplift, Sweetwater County, Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 702, 107 p.

Sears, J.D. and Bradley, W.H., 1924, Relations of the Wasatch and Green River formations in northwestern Colorado and southern Wyoming; with notes on oil shales in the Green River formation, IN Shorter contributions to general geology, 1923-24: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 132-F, p. F93-F107.

Pipiringos, G.N., 1955, Tertiary rocks in the central part of the Great Divide basin, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, IN Camp, R.J., chairman, Green River basin: Wyoming Geological Association Field Conference Guidebook, no. 10, p. 100-104.

Love, J.D., 1964, Uraniferous phosphatic lake beds of Eocene age in Intermontane basins of Wyoming and Utah, IN Shorter contributions to general geology, 1963: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 474-E, p. E1-E66.

Roehler, H.W., 1968, Redefinition of Tipton Shale Member of Green River Formation of Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 52, no. 11, p. 2249-2256.

Roehler, H.W., 1969, Stratigraphy and oil-shale deposits of Eocene rocks in Washakie basin, Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Association Field Conference Guidebook, no. 21, p. 197-206.

Sullivan, Raymond, 1980, A stratigraphic evaluation of the Eocene rocks of southwestern Wyoming: Wyoming Geological Survey Report of Investigations, no. 20, 50 p.

Roehler, H.W., 1991, Revised stratigraphic nomenclature for the Wasatch and Green River Formations, IN Geology of the Eocene Wasatch, Green River, and Bridger (Washakie) formations, greater Green River basin, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1506-B, p. B1-B38.

* 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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