Usage:
Medicine Bow Formation (WY*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Best exposed along both sides of North Platte River at mouth of the Medicine Bow [now submerged], Carbon Co., southern WY, [in secs. 14, 15, T. 24 N., R. 84 W., Seminoe Dam SE 7.5-min quadrangle] (Bowen, 1918; see also Dobbin and others, 1929, USGS Bull. 804, pl. 27, geol. map and sections of Hanna and Carbon basins, WY, scale 1:62,500).
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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