Usage:
Baxter Shale (WY*)
Subunits:
Airport Sandstone Member (WY) or Airport Tongue (WY*).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in vicinity of Baxter, [a station on the Union Pacific RR, in T. 19 N., R. 104 W.], Sweetwater Co., southwestern WY (Schultz, 1920).
AAPG geologic province:
Green 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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