Usage:
Guernsey Formation (WY*-recognized locally in Hartville uplift)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian (Tournaisian; Kinderhookian to Osagean)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Mapped around town of Guernsey, Hartville uplift, Hartville quadrangle (scale 1:125,000), Platte Co., southeastern WY (see Smith, 1903).]
Type section considered to be Hartville Canyon section on south-facing nose immediately east of North Platte River below Guernsey Reservoir, in S/2 NE/4 sec. 27, T. 27 N., R. 66 W., [Guernsey Reservoir 7.5-min quadrangle], Platte Co., eastern WY. It is in vicinity of Smith's (1903, p. 2) measured section of the Guersney Formation, near town of Fairbank [no longer exists], which shows the general character of the beds composing the formation (Sando and Sandberg, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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