Usage:
Red Desert Tongue of Wasatch Formation (WY*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures southwest of Red Desert Flat at Tipton Buttes and northeast of Red Desert Flat in NW corner T. 21 N., R. 94 W., and adjoining parts of T. 21 N., R. 95 W., T. 22 N., R. 94 W., and T. 22 N., R. 95 W., 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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