Usage:
No current usage.
(†Bivouac Formation (WY) replaced with informal and formal units, including Conant Creek Tuff and Huckleberry Ridge Tuff. See Conant Creek and Huckleberry Ridge.)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene and Pliocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on Signal Mountain, south of town of Moran and east of Jackson Lake, in secs. 19 and 20, T. 45 N., R. 114 W., Teton Co., northwestern WY. Named from Bivouac Peak, a prominent peak in Teton Range, directly west of type section (Love, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Yellowstone province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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