Usage:
Preuss Sandstone (ID*,UT*,WY*)
Preuss Redbeds (ID*,UT*,WY*)
Subunits:
Wolverine Canyon Limestone Member (ID*).
Geologic age:
Jurassic, Middle*
Callovian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Preuss Creek, in the northeastern part of the Montpelier quadrangle, about 12 mi northeast of Montpelier, Caribou Co., ID (Mansfield and Roundy, 1916).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta uplift*
Uinta basin*
Yellowstone province*
Snake River basin*
Green River basin*
Wasatch uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).