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Geologic Unit: Windy Hill

Usage:

Windy Hill Member of Morrison Formation (CO*,SD*,UT*,WY*)


Geologic age:

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Kimmeridgian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: in W/2 SW/4 SW/4 sec. 29, T. 25 N., R. 78 W., Carbon Co., WY (Pipiringos, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Chadron arch*
Denver basin*
Green River basin*
Powder River basin*
Uinta basin*
Williston basin*
Wind 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 ([ ]).