Usage:
Battle Spring Formation (WY*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Paleocene* to middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typical exposures southwest of Battle Spring Flat [in T. 23 and 24 N., R. 94 W.], and southeast of Lost Creek Butte, [in T. 23 N., R. 95 W.], Sweetwater Co., southwestern WY (Pipiringos, 1955).
Type area: in SW/4 T. 23 N., R. 94 W., about 20 mi north of station of Frewen on Union Pacific RR, eastern Sweetwater Co., WY (GNC index card files).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River 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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