Colorado River Basin Stratigraphy

Wilkins Peak Member of Green River Formation

Usage of Geologic Unit Name:
Wilkins Peak Member* of Green River Formation

Age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, early*
Eocene, middle*

Geologic Province:
Green River basin*

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

Type Locality:
at Wilkins Peak, T18N, R106W, Sweetwater Co, WY (Bradley, 1959).

Subunits:
Firehole Bed

Unit Name History:
Named as a member of Green River Formation (Bradley, 1959). Firehole Bed named (Love, 1964). Areal limits (Roehler, 1965, 1968, 1992); extended to CO (Tweto, 1976). Overview (Roehler, 1992; Roehler, 1993). Revised (Roehler, 1991).

References

Bradley, W.H., 1959, Revision of stratigraphic nomenclature of Green River formation of Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 43, no. 5, p. 1072-1075.

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., 1965, Early Tertiary depositional environments in the Rock Springs uplift area, IN De Voto, R.H., and Bitter, R.K., editors, Sedimentation of Late Cretaceous and Tertiary outcrops, Rock Springs uplift: Wyoming Geological Association Field Conference Guidebook, no. 19, p. 140-150.

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.

Tweto, Ogden (compiler), 1976, Preliminary geologic map of Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-788, 2 sheets, scale 1:500,000.

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.

Roehler, H.W., 1992, Correlation, composition, areal distribution, and thickness of Eocene stratigraphic units, greater Green River basin, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, 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-E, p. E1-E49, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:500,000).

Roehler, H.W., 1993, Eocene climates, depositional environments, and geography, greater Green River basin, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, 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-F, p. F1-F74.

* 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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