Usage:
No current usage.
(†Tower Creek Gravel Member of Osprey Formation (WY*) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on east side of The Narrows of the Yellowstone River Canyon, 5,800 ft N. 30 deg. W. of mouth of Tower Creek, in Yellowstone National Park, WY (Pierce and others, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Yellowstone province
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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