Usage:
Tipton Tongue of Green River Formation (CO*,UT*,WY*)
Tipton Shale Member of Green River Formation (CO*,UT*,WY*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Rife Bed (CO*,WY*), Sheggs Bed (CO*,WY*).
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late early Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures in vicinity of Tipton, a station on Union Pacific RR, [in NE/4 sec. 18, T. 19 N., R. 96 W., southeastern corner Tipton 7.5-min quadrangle], Sweetwater Co., southwestern WY (Schultz, 1920; see also Pipiringos, 1955).
Principal reference section: 6 mi east of Tipton Station, in sec. 19, T. 18 N., R. 97 W., Carbon Co., WY (Roehler, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
Uinta uplift*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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