Usage:
Kinney Rim Member of Washakie Formation (WY*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in SW/4 sec. 15 and S/2 sec. 16, T. 14 N., R. 99 W., [Chicken Creek East 7.5-min quadrangle], Sweetwater Co., southern WY. Named from exposures along lower east slopes of Kinney Rim, western part of Washikie basin, Sweetwater Co., southern WY (Roehler, 1973a).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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