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Geologic Unit: Lookout Mountain

Usage:

Lookout Mountain Member of Wasatch Formation (WY)
[/?] Lookout Mountain Conglomerate Member of Wasatch Formation (WY)


Geologic age:

early Eocene


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

Exposures along South Fork Hoback River and on Lookout Mountains, T. 35 N., R. 114 and 115 W., Sublette Co., WY. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Lookout Mountain, southern Hoback Range, Sublette Co., WY (Dorr and others, 1977).


AAPG geologic province:

Green River basin
Yellowstone province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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