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Geologic Unit: Scheggs

Usage:

Scheggs Bed of Tipton Shale Member of Green River Formation (CO*,WY*)
Scheggs 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: in N/2 sec. 36, T. 15 N., R. 101 W., and in S/2 sec. 25, T. 15 N., R. 100 1/2 W., Sweetwater Co., WY. Named from exposures on east slope of Scheggs Draw (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.

"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 ([ ]).