Usage:
Burnt Gulch Conglomerate (WY)
Burnt Gulch Formation (WY)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Pliocene) or Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: at west end of Table Mountain on Burnt Gulch, [in vicinity of Lat. 42 deg. 41 min. 56 sec. N., Long. 108 deg. 51 min. 24 sec. W., Fossil Hill 7.5-min quadrangle, Shoshone National Forest, Fremont Co., northeastern WY]. Present along east slope of Wind River Mountains, Fremont Co., northwestern WY. Best exposures on Dinwoody Creek (Branson and Branson, 1941).
AAPG geologic province:
Wind River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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