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Geologic Unit: Little Medicine

Usage:

Little Medicine Member of Goose Egg Formation (MT*,WY*)
Little Medicine Member of Dinwoody Formation (WY)


Geologic age:

Early Triassic (Scythian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: exposures on Little Medicine Bow River about 8 mi north of town of Medicine Bow, Carbon Co., WY (Thomas, 1934).


AAPG geologic province:

Green River basin*
Wind 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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).