Usage:
Hoback Formation (WY*)
Subunits:
Skyline Trail Conglomerate Member (WY).
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Paleocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures on southwestern side of Game Hill, opposite mouth of Cliff Creek, [in S/2 sec. 14], T. 38 N., R. 114 W., [southwestern corner Granite Falls 7.5-min quadrangle], Sublette Co., western WY. Good exposures along Hoback River, on northeast side of U.S. Highway 187 [U.S. 189/191], extending from Battle Mountain [northwest of type in adjacent Jackson 7.5-min quadrangle] southeastward for about 4 mi (Dorr, 1952).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
Yellowstone province*
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 ([ ]).