Usage:
Aycross Formation of Thorofare Group of Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup (WY*-notably Absaroka Range)
Aycross Formation (WY*-notably Teton Range)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: north side of North Mesa [now Upper Table], about 1 mi southeast of A Cross Ranch, in secs. 7, 8, 17, and 18, T. 7 N., R. 5 W., Fremont Co., southern Absaroka Range, Wind River Indian Reservation, northwestern WY. Named from A Cross Ranch on East Fork River at Duncan (Love, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Bighorn basin*
Wind River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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