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Geologic units in Campbell county, Wyoming

Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ) at surface, covers 9 % of this area

FORT UNION FORMATION Tullock Member--Soft gray sandstone, gray and brown carbonaceous shale, and thin coal beds.

Lithology: sandstone; shale; coal

Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ) at surface, covers 7 % of this area

FORT UNION FORMATION Tongue River (Tftr) and Lebo (Tfl) Members.

Lithology: fine-grained mixed clastic; medium-grained mixed clastic; coal

Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ) at surface, covers 15 % of this area

FORT UNION FORMATION Tongue River Member--Thick beds of yellow sandstone interbedded with gray and black shale and many coal beds.

Lithology: sandstone; shale; coal

Fox Hills Sandstone (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late) at surface, covers 0.2 % of this area

FOX HILLS SANDSTONE--Light-colored sandstone and gray sandy shale containing marine fossils.

Lithology: sandstone; shale

Alluvium and Colluvium (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary | Pleistocene Holocene) at surface, covers 3 % of this area

ALLUVIUM AND COLLUVIUM--Clay, silt, sand, and gravel in flood plains, fans, terraces, and slopes.

Lithology: alluvium; colluvium

Alluvium (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Alluvium: mainly valley fill consisting of silt, sand, and gravel; includes some terrace deposits and glacial drift of Pleistocene age in some areas; locally includes hot spring tufa. The older part of the alluvium, where present, is probably of Pliocene age.

Lithology: alluvium; glacial drift; carbonate

Fort Union formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary Cretaceous-Late | Paleocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Fort Union formation: Clay shale, siltstone, and sandstone; local lenses of impure limestone, and numerous lignitic beds; contains Tertiary plant and animal fossils but no dinosaurs; base generally placed at the lowest of the succession of lignite beds within it; includes the Tongue River member, Lebo shale member, and Tullock member.

Lithology: shale; siltstone; sandstone; coal; limestone

Wasatch Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene) at surface, covers 54 % of this area

WASATCH FORMATION -- in Thrust belt: Main body--Variegated red to gray, brown, and gray mudstone and sandstone; conglomeratic lenses; in southwest Wyoming--Drab to variegated claystone and siltstone, carbonaceous shale and coal, buff sandstone, arkose, and conglomerate. In northwestern part of Green River Basin is thick arkosic light-yellowish-tan sandstone intertonguing with pale-green to gray claystone and shale; in east Wyoming--Drab sandstone and drab to variegated claystone; numerous coal beds in lower part.

Lithology: mudstone; sandstone; conglomerate; coal

White River Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Oligocene (31-35 Ma)) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

WHITE RIVER FORMATION (AGE 31 TO 35 Ma)--White to pale-pink blocky tuffaceous claystone and lenticular arkosic conglomerate.

Lithology: fine-grained mixed clastic; medium-grained mixed clastic; mixed clastic/volcanic

Lance Formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late) at surface, covers 0.9 % of this area

LANCE FORMATION north Wyoming--Thick-bedded buff sandstone and drab to green shale; thin conglomerate lenses; south and northeast Wyoming--Brown and gray sandstone and shale; thin coal and carbonaceous shale beds.

Lithology: sandstone; shale; conglomerate; coal

Hell Creek formation (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic Cenozoic | Cretaceous-Late Tertiary | Paleocene) at surface, covers < 0.1 % of this area

Hell Creek formation: somber-gray sandstone and greenish shaly clay and mudstone containing dinosaur bones; a few thin lignite and subbituminous coal beds.

Lithology: sandstone; mudstone; coal

Pierre Shale (Phanerozoic | Mesozoic | Cretaceous-Late) at surface, covers 0.2 % of this area

PIERRE SHALE (AGE 72 TO 78 Ma)--Dark-gray concretionary marine shale; contains several bentonite beds.

Lithology: shale; mixed clastic/volcanic

Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ) at surface, covers 9 % of this area

FORT UNION FORMATION Lebo Member--Dark-gray clay shale and concretionary sandstone.

Lithology: shale; sandstone

Fort Union Formation (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Paleocene ) at surface, covers 1 % of this area

FORT UNION FORMATION Lebo (Tfl) and Tullock (Fft) Members.

Lithology: fine-grained mixed clastic; medium-grained mixed clastic; coal