Usage:
Tepee Trail Formation of Thorofare Creek Group of Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup (WY*)
Tepee Trail Formation (WY)
Subunits:
Hendry Ranch Member (WY*).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: just east of junction of Teepee Trail and [unamed] trail, in T. 44 N., R. 104 W., Fremont Co., WY. Named from Teepee Trail which crosses East Fork-Bear Creek divide midway between Castle Rock and Steamboat Rock and joins a trail at junction of Boulder Creek with East Fork River in T. 43 N., R. 104 W., Fremont Co., WY (Love, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Bighorn basin*
Wind 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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