Usage:
Knight Formation (UT,WY*)
Knight Member of Wasatch Formation (UT,WY)
Knight Conglomerate (UT*,WY*)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS (alphabetical): Cathedral Bluffs Tongue (WY), Hiawatha Member (UT).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Knight Station on the Union Pacific RR, in NE/4 sec. 17, T. 14 N., R. 119 W., [approx. Lat. 41 deg. 11 min. 40 sec. N., Long. 110 deg. 51 min. 16 sec. W., Sulphur Creek Reservoir 7.5-min quadrangle], Uinta Co., southwestern WY (Veatch, 1907, USGS Prof. Paper 56, pl. 3).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta uplift
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 ( ).
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