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Geologic Unit: Sacagawea Ridge

Usage:

Sacagawea Ridge Till (CO*,WY*)
Sacagawea Ridge glaciation (informal)*

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:

Type section: Sacagawea Ridge on north side of Upper Dinwoody Lake, in center sec. 31, T. 5 N., R. 5 W., [north flank of Wind River Mountains], Fremont Co., WY (Richmond, 1962).


AAPG geologic province:

Wind River 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 ([ ]).