Usage:
Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of Wasatch Formation (CO*,WY*)
Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of Knight Formation (WY)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early to middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Forms the highly colored escarpment of Laney Rim [now Delaney Rim] and "Cathedral Bluffs," Sweetwater Co., southern WY. ["Cathedral Bluffs" is on north side of Continental Divide, in T. 19 N., R. 96 W., Sweetwater Co., southern WY] (Schultz, 1920).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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