Usage:
Washakie Formation (WY*)
Spelled Washakee in early reports.
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in WY*: Adobe Town Member, Kinney Rim Member.
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (middle to late Eocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from expsoures at Washaki [Washakie] Station between Creston and Bitter Creek, on the Union Pacific RR, in Sweetwater Co., southwestern WY (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
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 ([ ]).