Usage:
Bishop Conglomerate (CO*,UT*,WY*)
Originally called Bishop Mountain.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Caps Bishop Mountain [now Pine Mountain, just north of WY-CO State bdry, approx. Lat. 41 deg. 02 min. N., Long. 108 deg. 59 min. 20 sec. W.], Sweetwater Co., WY (Powell, 1876).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
Piceance basin*
Uinta 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 ([ ]).