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Geologic Unit: Timothy

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 ([ ]).