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Green River Formation: Fontenelle Tongue or Member [NONE ON MAP]

WASATCH AND GREEN RIVER FORMATIONS: New Fork Tongue (dull-red and green mudstone, brown sandstone, and thin limestone beds, merging southward in T. 23 N. with other units) of Wasatch and Fontenelle Tongue or Member (oil shale, marlstone, limestone, and siltstone; occurs along Green and New Fork Rivers and on west side of Green River Basin from T. 33 N. south to and lensing out in T. 17 N.) of Green River.
StateWyoming
NameGreen River Formation: Fontenelle Tongue or Member [NONE ON MAP]
Geologic agePhanerozoic | Cenozoic | Tertiary | Eocene
Original map labelTwg
Primary rock typefine-grained mixed clastic
Secondary rock typemixed clastic/carbonate
Other rock typesoil shale
Lithologic constituents
Major
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone
Minor
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Marlstone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone > Shale > Oil-shale
Sedimentary > Carbonate > Limestone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Mudstone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Siltstone
Sedimentary > Clastic > Sandstone
Map references
Love, J.D. and Christiansen, Ann Coe, 1985, Geologic Map of Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey.
Unit references
Love, J.D. and Christiansen, Ann Coe, 1985, Geologic Map of Wyoming: U.S. Geological Survey.
Geographic coverageLincoln - Sublette

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