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The Geologic History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin
The Geologic History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin FOSSIL BUTTE The Geologic History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin NPS Occasional Paper No. 3 THE GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF FOSSIL BUTTE NATIONAL MONUMENT AND FOSSIL BASIN Paul O. McGrew Michael Casilliano Department of Geology, University of Wyoming National Park Service Occasional Paper Number Three 1975 TABLE OF CONTENTS index.htm Last Updated: 01-Mar-2005 http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/fobu/index.htm[6/17/2013 12:42:49 PM] The Geologic History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin (Tables of Contents) FOSSIL BUTTE The Geologic History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin NPS Occasional Paper No. 3 CONTENTS COVER INTRODUCTION LOCATION HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF RESEARCH STRATIGRAPHY Thaynes Limestone Evanston Formation Wasatch Formation Basal Conglomerate Member Lower Member Main Body Sandstone Tongue Mudstone Tongue Bullpen Member Tunp Member Age of the Wasatch Formation Depositional Environment Green River Formation Fossil Butte Member Angelo Member Age of the Green River Formation Depositional Environment Fowkes Formation Sillem Member Bulldog Hollow Member Gooseberry Member Age of the Fowkes Formation Depositional Environment QUATERNARY THE GEOLOGIC STRUCTURE OF FOSSIL BASIN PALEONTOLOGY Flora Invertebrates http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/fobu/contents.htm[6/17/2013 12:42:58 PM] The Geologic History of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin (Tables of Contents) Vertebrates Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals PALEOECOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GLOSSARY REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data McGrew, Paul Orman, 1909- The geological history of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin. -
Uppermost Cretaceous and Tertiary Stratigraphy of Fossil Basin, Southwestern Wyoming
Uppermost Cretaceous and Tertiary Stratigraphy of Fossil Basin, Southwestern Wyoming By STEVEN S. ORIEL and JOSHUA I. TRACEY, JR. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 635 New subdivisions of the J,ooo-Joot-thick continental Evanston, Wasatch, Green River, and Fowkes Formations facilitate understanding of sediment genesis and Jl7yoming thrust-belt tectonic events UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1970 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WALTER J. HICKEL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director Library of Congress catalog-card No. 70-604646 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price 65 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS Page Wasatch Formation-Continued Abstract __________________________________________ _ 1 Fossils and age-Continued· Page Introduction ______________________________________ _ 2 Tunp Member______________________________ 28 Purpose ______________________________________ _ 2 Origin--------~-------------------------------- 28 Earlier work_ .. __ - __ - ___________________ - _-- _- __ 2 Tectonic implications ____________ -_-------------- 29 Acknowledgments __ . ___________________________ _ 2 Green River Formation ___ .. _______ ------------------ 30 General relations ___ -- _________________________ _ 5 Name and usage __________________ -------------- 30 Evanston Formation _______________________________ _ 5 Definition __________________ -_-------------- 30 N arne and usage _______________________________ _ 5 Lithologic heterogeneity. -
Changes in Stratigraphic Nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1973
Changes in Stratigraphic Nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1973 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1395-A NOV1419/5 5 81 Changes in Stratigraphic Nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1973 By GEORGE V. COHEE and WILNA R. WRIGHT CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1395-A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1975 66 01-141-00 oM UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Cohee, George Vincent, 1907 Changes in stratigraphic nomenclatures by the U. S. Geological Survey, 1973. (Contributions to stratigraphy) (Geological Survey bulletin; 1395-A) Supt. of Docs, no.: I 19.3:1395-A 1. Geology, Stratigraphic Nomenclature United States. I. Wright, Wilna B., joint author. II. Title. III. Series. IV. Series: United States. Geological Survey. Bulletin; 1395-A. QE75.B9 no. 1395-A [QE645] 557.3'08s 74-31466 [551.7'001'4] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, B.C. 20402 Price 95 cents (paper cover) Stock Number 2401-02593 CONTENTS Page Listing of nomenclatural changes ______ _ Al Beulah Limestone and Hardscrabble Limestone (Mississippian) of Colorado abandoned, by Glenn R. Scott _________________ 48 New and revised stratigraphic names in the western Sacramento Valley, Calif., by John D. Sims and Andre M. Sarna-Wojcicki __ 50 Proposal of the name Orangeburg Group for outcropping beds of Eocene age in Orangeburg County and vicinity, South Carolina, by George E. Siple and William K. Pooser _________________ 55 Abandonment of the term Beattyville Shale Member (of the Lee Formation), by Gordon W. -
Appendix 1 – Environmental Predictor Data
APPENDIX 1 – ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTOR DATA CONTENTS Overview ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Climate ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Hydrology ................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Land Use and Land Cover ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Soils and Substrate .................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Topography .............................................................................................................................................................................. 10 References ................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 1 OVERVIEW A set of 94 potential predictor layers compiled to use in distribution modeling for the target taxa. Many of these layers derive from previous modeling work by WYNDD1, 2, but a -
Clastic Laramide Sediments of the Wasatch Hinterland
CLASTIC LARAMIDE SEDIMENTS OF THE WASATCH HINTERLAND, NORTHEASTERN UTAH by Daven Craig Mann A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of o • • Master of Science in Geology Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Utah Summer 1974 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH GRADUATE SCHOOL SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE APPROVAL of a thesis submitted by Daven Craig Mann I have read this thesis and have found it to be of satisfactory quality for a master's degree. * /• % Li, /Eugene Call4.ghan [ChairmartySupervisory Committee T have read this thesis and have found it to be of satisfactory quality for a master's j degree. Date rancis W. Christiansen Member, Svipervisory Committee T have read this thesis and have found it to be of satisfactory quality for a master's decree. Jonathan H. Goodwin [ember, Supervisory Committee UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LIBRARIES UNIVERSITY OF UTAH GRADUATE SCHOOL. FINAL READING APPROVAL To the Graduate Council of the University of Utah: I have read the thesis of Daven Craig Mann in its final form and have found that (1) its format, citations, and bibliographic style are consistent and acceptable; (2) its illustrative materials including figures, tables, and charts are in place; and (3) the final manuscript is satisfactory to the Supervisory Committee and is ready - for submission to the Graduate School. Approved for the Major Department Chairman/Dean Approved for the Graduate Counci Sterling M. McMurrin Dean of the Graduate School ACKNOWLEDGMENT Acknowledgment is made to the Utah Geological and Mineral Survey which financially aided the author while doing the field work. -
Exhumation of the North American Cordillera Revealed by Multi-Dating of Upper Jurassic–Upper Cretaceous Foreland Basin Deposits
Exhumation of the North American Cordillera revealed by multi-dating of Upper Jurassic–Upper Cretaceous foreland basin deposits Clayton S. Painter†, Barbara Carrapa, Peter G. DeCelles, George E. Gehrels, and Stuart N. Thomson Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 E. 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA ABSTRACT AFT and U-Pb) shows that volcanic contami- eroded and later obscured by Basin and Range nation is a signifi cant issue that can, however, extensional tectonics, leaving only the foreland New low-temperature thermochronol- be addressed by double dating. basin deposits as a record of exhumation history. ogy and geochronology data from Upper Despite the great potential of such an approach Jurassic–Upper Cretaceous strata from the INTRODUCTION in North America, to date, no detailed detrital North American Cordilleran foreland ba- thermochronological study had been applied in sin in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and South Foreland basin deposits are an impor- the retro arc foreland basin of the North Ameri- Dakota document rapid exhumation rates tant archive of orogenic growth and tectonic can Cordillera. The goal of this study is to deter- of the adjacent Cordilleran orogenic belt to processes (Aubouin, 1965; Dickinson, 1974; mine the timing, pattern, and rates of cooling of the west. Both zircon (U-Th-[Sm])/He (zircon Dickinson and Suczek, 1979; Jordan, 1981; the North American Cordillera in order to better He) and apatite fi ssion track (AFT) thermo- DeCelles and Giles, 1996; DeCelles, 2004; understand the modes of exhumation and con- chronology were applied to proximal and Miall, 2009). Many researchers have used tribute to models of fold- thrust belt and foreland distal synorogenic deposits in order to iden- coarse-grained foreland basin deposits to date basin evolution. -
Triassic-Jurassic 'Red Beds' of the Rocky Mountain Region": a Discussion
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln USGS Staff -- Published Research US Geological Survey 1929 "Triassic-Jurassic 'Red Beds' of the Rocky Mountain Region": A Discussion John B. Reeside Jr. U.S. Geological Survey Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub Part of the Earth Sciences Commons Reeside, John B. Jr., ""Triassic-Jurassic 'Red Beds' of the Rocky Mountain Region": A Discussion" (1929). USGS Staff -- Published Research. 498. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/498 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the US Geological Survey at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in USGS Staff -- Published Research by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The Journal of Geology, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1929), pp. 47-63 "TRIASSIC-JURASSIC 'RED BEDS' OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION": A DISCUSSION' JOHN B. REESIDE, JR. U.S. Geological Survey ABSTRACT The conclusion drawn by Professor E. B. Branson in a recent paper on the "Red Beds" of the Rocky Mountain region that parts of these beds are marine is considered likely. The conclusion that there exists no basis for subdivision of the beds is not accepted, and a division of the Mesozoic part into Lower Triassic, Upper Triassic, and Jurassic units is advocated. The conclusion that no eolian deposits are present likewise is not accepted, and the interpretation of important parts of the Jurassic unit as eolian is advocated. Disagreement is expressed with much of Professor Branson's correlation table, and a substitute is offered. -
CORRELATION of the UPPER CRETACEOUS STRATA of WYOMING Stratigraphic Chart Director and State Geologist Upper Cretaceous Laramie, Wyoming by Ranie M
WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open File Report 2017-3 Thomas A. Drean CORRELATION OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS STRATA OF WYOMING Stratigraphic Chart Director and State Geologist Upper Cretaceous Laramie, Wyoming by Ranie M. Lynds and Joshua S. Slattery Wyoming Interpreting the past, providing for the future 2017 Western Hanna Laramie Bighorn Denver Greater Green River Basin Wind River Basin Powder River Basin Wyoming Basin Basin Basin Basin A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Age Period Epoch Stage and Stage Polarity U.S. Western Interior U.S. Western Interior U.S. Western Interior North American U.S. Western Interior Southern Jackson Northwestern Southern Eastern Eastern Atlantic Rocky Point Separation Lost Soldier Tully Rawlins Hanna Laramie Western Southern and Eastern Bighorn Northwestern Salt Creek Southwestern Southeastern Central Northwestern Denver (Ma) Boundary Chron Radiometric Ammonite Inoceramid Land Vertebrate Palynostratigraphic Thrust Belt Hole and Rock Springs Rock Springs Rock Springs Washakie Rim Rim Ranch Draw Basin Basin, Wind River Central Wind Wind River Basin Powder Powder Powder River Black Hills Black Hills Basin (Ma) Age (Ma) Biozone Biozone Age Biozone Hoback Basin Uplift Uplift Uplift Basin Rock River Basin River Basin Basin River Basin River Basin Basin (7, 56, 77) (7, 56, 74) (8, 49, 54, 55, 56, 69, 72) (7, 23, 25, 56, 74) (7, 56, 74) (2, 33, 35, 77) (50) (6, 10, 29, 30, 47, 53, (6, 11, 12, 22, 32, 37, (12, 26, 30, 64, 72, (12, 26, 30, 36, 63, 64, (12, 19, 20, 26, 29, 30, (1, 12, 21, 30, 36, 58, -
Chapter 2 Study Area
Chapter 2 Study area Keith Clarey Melissa Thompson 2-1 he Greater Green River Basin (GGRB) forest and alpine tundra on the higher mountains. includes the Green River Basin, the Great At lower elevations in the basin, the vegetation in- Divide Basin, and the Little Snake River cludes abundant sagebrush, saltbush, greasewood, TBasin (Figure 1-1). The project boundary is deter- and desert shrub. Forested areas contain lodgepole mined by the distal river drainage basin divides. pine, spruce, fir, and aspen. The drainage basin boundaries overlap several geo- logic features within the GGRB. The continental GEOLOGIC SETTING: STRUCTURE divide marks the northern and eastern boundaries The GGRB is bounded by the Overthrust Belt to of the GGRB; it bifurcates and reconverges around the west, the Hoback Basin to the northwest, the the Great Divide Basin (Figure 1-1). Figure 2-1 Wind River Range and Granite Mountains to the shows the townships and ranges in the GGRB. north, the Rawlins Uplift to the east, the Sierra Madre to the east-southeast, the southern Sand The Wyoming portion of the GGRB, as delineated Wash Basin in Colorado to the south-southeast, using GIS databases, has an area of 20,792 square and the Uinta Mountains in Utah to the south. miles (13,306,700 acres). The Wyoming GGRB Within the GGRB, the Rock Springs Uplift and covers 21.3 percent of the area of the state. The Bridger Basin are located in the Green River Basin adjacent 3,821 square miles (2,445,900 acres) of proper; the Wamsutter Arch separates the Great the Colorado and Utah GGRB added to the Wyo- Divide Basin from the Washakie Basin; and Chero- ming GGRB area gives a total basin area of 24,613 kee Ridge separates the Washakie Basin from the square miles (15,752,500 acres) (Figures 1-1 and Sand Wash Basin (Figure 2-2). -
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies
SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PALEOBIOLOGY NUMBER 2 c. Lewis Gazin A New Occurrence of Paleocene Mammals in the Evanston Formation, Southwestern Wyoming ISSUED DEC 31 1969 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS CITY OF WASHINGTON i969 ABSTRACT Gazin, C. Lewis. A New Occurrence of Paleocene Mammals in the Evanston Forma- tion, Southwestern Wyoming. Contributions to Paleobiology, 2: 1-17. 1969. A new fossil horizon and locality for the Evanston formation, near Little Muddy Creek in the Fossil Basin of southwestern Wyoming, has yielded remains of a mammalian faunule of middle Paleocene age. Relationships are shown to the two widely separated classic occurrences: the upper Lebo of the Montana Fort Union and the New Mexico Torre- jon. A correlation is also indicated with the Battle Mountain and Rock Bench occurrences in the more local Wyoming region. The known faunule is comprised of essentially small Mammalia representing the orders Multituberculata, Insectívora, Primates, Creodonta, and Condylarthra. The material consists for the most part of isolated teeth, hence identifications are necessarily tentative in nature. Official publication date is handstamped in a limited number of initial copies and is recorded in the Institution's annual report, Smithsonian Year. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1969 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington,, D.C. 20402 Price 45 cents (paper cover) C. Lewis Gazin A New Occurrence of Paleocene Mammals in the Evanston Formation, Southwestern Wyoming Introduction strata understood to be a part of the Evanston forma- tion include remains of a Tiffanian Paleocene fauna While making a study of the Cretaceous and Tertiary encountered (Gazin, 1956b) at the forks of Twin deposits of the Fossil Basin in southwestern Wyoming, Creek near Fossil Station, high in a sequence of beds, during the 1959 field season, Joshua I. -
Western Interior Seaway
() . Paleogeo.graphy of the Late Cretaceous of the Western Interior otMfddle North America+ j?'oal .Blstribution anct,Sedimen~cumulation By Laura N. Robinson Roberts and Mark A. Kirschbaum U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1561 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1995 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Gordon P. Eaton, Director For sale by U.S. Geological Survey, Information Services Box 25286, Federal Center Denver, CO 80225 Any use of trade, product, or finn names in this publication is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roberts, Laura N. Robinson. Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous of the western interior of middle North America : coal distribution and sediment accumulation I by Laura N. Robinson Roberts and Mark A. Kirschbaum. p. em.- (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper ; 1561) Includes bibliographical references. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.16: 1561 1. Paleogeography-Cretaceous. 2. Paleogeography-West (U.S.). 3. Coal Geology-West (U.S.). I. Kirschbaum, Mark A. II. Title. III. Series. QE50 1.4.P3R63 1995 553.2'1'0978-dc20 94-39032 CIP CONTENTS Abstract........................................................................................................................... 1" Introduction ................................................................................................................... Western Interior Seaway ... .. ... ... ... .. .. .. -
Plate U. Relation of Lithostratigraphic Units to Hydrogeologic Units, Hanna and Laramie Basins
Hydrogeologic units of Lundy (1978), Hydrogeologic role/unit of Richter (1981a; Hydrogeologic division of Lowry et al. (1973) Hydrogeologic role/unit of Statewide Huntoon and Lundy (1979a), Thompson (1979), Figure II-6, Table IV-2, and text) Hydrogeologic unit of Mazor (1990) Lithostratigraphic units of Love et al. (1993) [Laramie, Hanna, and Shirley Basins; Hydrogeologic role/unit of Younus (1992) Hydrogeologic unit of HydroGeo, Inc. (2003) Hydrogeologic unit of Taboga (2006) Framework Water Plan Hydrogeologic unit used in this report for SYSTEM AND SERIES Davis (1984), Western Water Consultants, Inc. [Laramie, Hanna, and Shirley Basins; and Mazor et al. (1993) in the Hanna and Laramie Basins Sierra Madre, Laramie Mountains (west flank) [Laramie area/southern Laramie Basin] [Hanna Basin] [Laramie area] (WWC Engineering et al., 2007, Figure 4-9) Hanna and Laramie Basins (1993, 1995), and WWC Engineering (2006a) Sierra Madre, Laramie Mountains (west flank) [Laramie area] ERATHEM and Saratoga Valley areas] [All of Wyoming] [Laramie area] and Saratoga Valley areas] Holocene QUATERNARY and Alluvium and terrace deposits Unit 8 Local aquifers3 Local aquifers Major aquifer–alluvial Quaternary unconsolidated-deposit aquifers Pleistocene Pliocene1 Miocene Miocene and Oligocene rocks Not discussed or not present Undefined Presumed aquifer(s) in investigator’s study area Conglomerate CENOZOIC TERTIARY Oligocene White River Unit 8 Marginal aquifer White River aquifer and confining unit Formation Lower part Principal aquifer–Tertiary aquifer(s)4 Wagon Bed Formation Marginal aquifer Wagon Bed aquifer and confining unit Eocene Wind River Formation Major aquifer–sandstone Wind River aquifer Hanna Formation Aquifer8 Marginal aquifer Hanna aquifer Paleocene 8 Ferris Formation Aquifers and confining units Aquifer Marginal aquifer Ferris aquifer Medicine Bow Formation (not divided or classified in report).