Usage:
Pinedale glaciation (informal)*
Pinedale Till (CO*,ID*,MT*,UT*,WY*)
For informal usage, the rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures near Pinedale, on southwest side of Wind River Range, [Sublette Co.], central western WY (Blackwelder, 1915).
Holostratotype area (Pinedale Till) designated where Blackwelder (1915) described moraines around large lakes near Pinedale and where sequence of typical Pinedale moraines are mapped by Richmond (1973) around and along Fremont Lake, Sublette Co., central western WY (Subcommission on North American Quaternary Stratigraphy, 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
Estancia basin*
Green River basin*
San Luis basin*
Wasatch uplift*
Wind River basin*
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 ([ ]).