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Wyoming's Meeteetse Formation is an Upper Cretaceous unit that consists of mixed siliciclastics and coal. It varies in thickness from a feather's edge (due to erosion) to almost 1,000 feet thick. In the deep subsurface, the Meeteetse reaches about 4,500 feet thick and can have up to 100 different coal horizons, some of which are 20 feet thick.

Stratigraphy: Meeteetse Formation, Upper Cretaceous

Locality: outcrop on the northeastern side of Route 120, southeast of the town of Meeteetse, southeastern Park County, northwestern Wyoming, USA


Some info. from:

Hickling et al. (1989) - Geology of the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary coal-bearing rocks in the western part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1813. 128 pp. 1 pl.
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Source Meeteetse Formation (Upper Cretaceous; southeast of Meeteetse, Wyoming, USA) 20
Author James St. John

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