The Stratigraphy of the Phosphoria Formation Along the Northwestern Margin of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming |
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Absaroka Range abundant alive Amer associates 1959 Big Horn Basin calc calcite Caldwell Creek section carbonate facies carbonate rock central Wyoming chert pebbles chert zone coarse crystalline correlated Dinwoody Canyon section Dinwoody formation dolomitic dominant lithology Embar formation fossil fragments geodes Goose Egg formation grained grayish orange grayish yellow green day groy interbedded light greenish gray light olive gray limestone lower unit mapped massive McCue McKelvey and associates medium crystalline medium gray medium light gray mudstone nodular Owl Creek Mountains Park City formation Permian Permian sediments phosphate deposits Phosphoria and Dinwoody Phosphoria formation plate poorly exposed red beds report area sandstone sandy Sheldon Siltstone silty slightly phos subdivision Survey Bull TENSLEEP FM Ss Tensleep formation thickness tongues U. S. Geol U. S. Geological Survey upper carbonate unit upper chert unit upper phosphatic zone Utah vugs west-central Wyoming western Wyoming Wind River Mountains Wind River Range yellowish gray