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Geologic Unit: Tapers Ranch

Usage:

Tapers Ranch Sandstone Member of Haystack Mountains Formation of Mesaverde Group (WY)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: NE/4 NE/4 sec. 22, NE/4 sec. 23, and SE/4 SE/4 sec. 14, T. 22 N., R. 86 W., Carbon Co., WY (Gill and others, 1970).


AAPG geologic province:

Green River basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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