Usage:
Beaver Divide Conglomerate Member of White River Formation (WY*)
Beaver Divide Conglomerate Member of Wiggins Formation (WY)
Beaver Divide Conglomerate Member of Chadron Formation of White River Group (WY)
Geologic age:
Tertiary, early*
Oligocene, early*
Chadronian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from occurrence in Beaver Divide area. Well exposed on east side of North Oregon Butte on northwest flank of Great Divide basin, south of Beaver Divide, in west-central part of sec. 2, T. 26 N., R. 101 W., southwestern WY (Nace, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Wind River basin*
Green River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).