- Usage in publication:
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- Dry Coyote Conglomerate Bed*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Conglomerate
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Wind River basin
Summary:
Named as a bed in Puddle Springs Arkose Member of Wind River Formation of latest early Eocene or Lost Cabin age for exposures along Dry Coyote Creek, Fremont Co., WY, in south-central part of Wind River basin. Type locality designated in N1/2 SE1/4 SW1/4 sec 6, T32N, R90W. Is a granite cobble-boulder conglomerate with a coarse sandy matrix and some lenses of coarse arkosic sandstone. Boulders average 1 to 1 1/2 ft in diameter, but some are as large as 3 ft. Carbonaceous material common. Is about 20 ft thick at type; is persistently 10 to 30 ft thick elsewhere. Thickens south to 50 ft. Is just below middle of Wind River and about 320 ft above base of Puddle Springs. Is of Lost Cabin, latest early Eocene age.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).
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