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Geologic Unit: Godiva Rim

Usage:

Godiva Rim Member of Green River Formation (CO*,WY*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary*
Eocene, early middle*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: east slopes of Bald Mountain, in NE/4 sec. 1, T. 8 N., R. 96 W., Moffat Co., CO. Named from exposures along southeast slopes of Godiva Rim in Sand Wash basin, Moffat Co., CO (Roehler, 1991a;b).


AAPG geologic province:

Green River basin*


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).