Usage:
Rife Bed of Tipton Shale Member of Green River Formation (CO*,WY*)
Rife Bed of Tipton Tongue of Green River Formation (CO*,WY*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene, late early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: SW/4 sec. 13 and NW/4 sec. 24, T. 13 N., R. 103 W., Sweetwater Co., WY. Named from Rife Ranch (Roehler, 1991).
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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