Usage:
Timothy Sandstone (ID*,UT,WY*)
Timothy Formation (ID,UT)
Geologic age:
Early Triassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Timothy Creek, in Lanes Creek and Freedom quadrangles, which cuts formation, [Caribou Co.], southeastern ID (Mansfield, 1920).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
Snake River basin*
Wasatch uplift*
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 ([ ]).