Usage:
Adobe Town Member of Washakie Formation (WY*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle and late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: [middle part], beds 629-675, on slopes of major north-trending dry wash, [along Skull Creek], in NW/4 sec. 29 and W/2 sec. 20, T. 13 N., R. 97 W., [Upper Powder Spring 7.5-min quadrangle], Sweetwater Co., southern WY (Roehler, 1973).
Principal reference sections: (1) upper part, beds 676-708, at Adobe Town, in NW/4 sec. 30, and SE/4 sec. 31, T. 15 N., R. 97 W., [in northwest corner of Monument Valley 7.5-min quadrangle], Sweetwater Co., southern WY; and (2) lower part, beds 569-628, in NW/4 sec. 29, and SW/4 sec. 20, T. 13 N., R. 98 W., [Cow Creek Reservoir SW 7.5-min quadrangle], Sweetwater Co., southern WY (Roehler, 1973).
Named from Adobe Town, Sweetwater Co., southern WY (Roehler, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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