Usage:
Deep Creek Sandstone Member of Haystack Mountains Formation of Mesaverde Group (WY*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Well developed in subsurface, Amerada Petroleum Corp. Deep Creek Unit Well No. 1, in sec. 30, T. 16 N., R. 90 W., Carbon Co., south-central WY (Hale, 1961).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
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Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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