Usage:
Niland Tongue of Wasatch Formation (WY*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: [Lost Creek Lake area], in SE/4 T. 24 N., R. 96 W., and in SW/4 T. 24 N., R. 95 W., [Lost Creek Lake 15-min quadrangle], Sweetwater Co., southwestern WY. Named from rocks which crop out at southern margin of structural basin called Niland Basin and along north side of Lost Creek Flat. Named from Niland Spring in sec. 23, T. 25 N., R. 96 W., [northeastern corner Bush Lake 7.5-min quadrangle, Sweetwater Co., southwestern WY] (Pipiringos, 1955).
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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