Union Wash Formation

Union Wash Formation
Stratigraphic range: Triassic
Type Formation
Location
Region Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, California
Country United States

The Union Wash Formation is a geologic formation in the Inyo Mountains, east of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California.

It is of the Early Triassic epoch in the Triassic Period, during the Mesozoic Era.

Fossils

It preserves fossils dating back to the Triassic period.[1] They include Inyoites owenii, from the Meekoceras bed of the formation, and Ammonoids.[2]

The sites are protected within the Southern Inyo Mountains Wilderness of the Inyo National Forest.

See also

References

Triassic Period
Lower/Early Triassic Middle Triassic Upper/Late Triassic
Induan |Olenekian Anisian | Ladinian Carnian | Norian
Rhaetian


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