Usage:
Renegade Tongue of Wasatch Formation (CO*,UT*)
Geologic age:
middle Eocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): on ridge north of Renegade Canyon, a tributary of Thomson Canyon, in secs. 33 and 34, T. 18 S., R. 20 E., and in secs. 18 and 19, T. 19 S., R. 20 E., Grand Co., UT. Named from exposures near Renegade Canyon in vicinity of T. 19 S., R. 20 E., Grand Co., UT (Cashion, 1967).
AAPG geologic province:
Uinta basin*
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 ([ ]).