Usage:
Laney Member of Green River Formation (CO*,WY*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Cow Hollow Bed (WY), Craven Creek Bed (WY), Hartt Cabin Bed (WY*), LaClede Bed (CO*,WY*), Sand Butte Bed (WY*).
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, early middle*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures along Laney Rim, in T. 18 N., R. 97 W., Sweetwater Co., WY (Schultz, 1920).
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.
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