Usage:
No current usage.
(†Evacuation Creek Member of Green River Formation (CO,UT) replaced with Parachute Creek Member of Green River Formation in Uinta basin, and by Uinta Formation in Piceance basin. See Parachute Creek and Uinta.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures on Evacuation Creek, in T. 2 S., R. 25 E., Uintah Co., UT (Bradley, 1931).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin
Piceance basin
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