Usage:
Depass Formation (WY)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: Wind River Canyon, Fremont Co., western WY. Named from "D" Pass [now spelled Depass] at east end of Bridger Range (Miller, 1936).
AAPG geologic province:
Bighorn basin
Wind River basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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