Usage:
Buck Spring Formation (WY)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: near Buck Spring, in SE/4 sec. 4, T. 22 N., R. 88 W., in northwestern part of Rawlins uplift, Carbon Co., south-central WY (Shaw and McGrew, 1954).
Type section: in sec. 33, T. 23 N., R. 88 W., Carbon Co., WY (Shaw and Deland, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin
Wind River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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