Usage:
Osprey Basalt (WY*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: west side of Sheepeater Canyon, 3,200 ft almost due north of Osprey Falls and just east of closest approach in this vicinity of Bunsen Peak Road to rim of canyon, [approx. Lat. 44 deg. 56 min. 15 sec. N., Long. 110 deg. 40 min. 56 sec. W., Mammoth 15-min quadrangle (1962 ed.), Park Co.], Yellowstone National Park, northwestern WY. Named from Osprey Falls (Pierce and others, 1970; see also U.S. Geological Survey, 1972, USGS Misc. Geol. Inv. Map I-711, scale 1:125,000).
AAPG geologic province:
Yellowstone province*
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 ([ ]).