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    The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day...
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    Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River. The watershed of the river, known as the Green River...
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  • Green River may refer to: Green River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Lillooet River Green River, a tributary of the Saint John River, also known...
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  • found in the remains of large lakes such as the deposits of the Green River Formation of Wyoming and Utah, USA. Oil-shale deposits formed in the shallow...
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    Elimia tenera (category Green River Formation)
    46 to 51 million years old and occur in the Laney Member of the Green River Formation. Evidence suggests that the Elimia tenera were deposited nearshore...
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  • Carotane (category Green River Formation)
    more extensive geologic record. Carotane was first measures in the Green River Formation. It was discovered using gas-liquid chromatography and GC/MS. The...
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    Erismatopterus (category Green River Formation)
    several outcrops of the Early to Middle Eocene Green River Formations Lake Gosiute and Lake Uinta. The formation is a group of Late Paleocene to Late Eocene...
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    Trona (category Green River Formation)
    California; the Green River Formation of Wyoming and Utah; the Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana and in the Nile Valley in Egypt. The trona near Green River, Wyoming...
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    (Cockerell) MacGinitie Green River Formation, North America (Colorado) Eocene Malus pseudocredneria (Cockerell) MacGinitie Green River Formation, North America...
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    Grande, Lance (2011). "Stem Parrots (Aves, Halcyornithidae) from the Green River Formation and a Combined Phylogeny of Pan-Psittaciformes". Journal of Paleontology...
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    Nahcolite (category Green River Formation)
    S. from Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California; in the Green River Formation, Colorado and Utah; in the Tincalayu deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto...
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    was described by Storrs Olson in 1987 from a fossil found in the Green River Formation in Wyoming. The species, Prefica nivea, was probably not adapted...
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  • Formation and overlying Green River Formation. The name was first used by P.T. Walton in 1944 for strata below the Green River Formation at the base of the...
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    Moissanite (category Green River Formation)
    encountered. Then, in 1958, moissanite was found in the upper mantle Green River Formation in Wyoming and, the following year, as inclusions in the ultramafic...
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    underlying layers of sedimentary rock, including a layer of the Green River Formation. "Battlement Mesa". Geographic Names Information System. United...
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  • and the technology used. About one sixth of the oil shales in the Green River Formation have a relatively high yield of 25 to 100 US gallons (95 to 379 L;...
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    Monument, the formation crops out underlying the Green River Formation. In the Silt Quadrangle of Garfield County, Colorado, the formation overlies the...
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    (Eocene; Green River Formation, Eden Valley, Wyoming) Palmoxylon compactum Palmoxylon concordiense Palmoxylon contortum (Eocene; Green River Formation, Eden...
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    fossil species, Stegobium defunctus is known from the Eocene aged Green River Formation of Wyoming. The oldest records of the beetle as a pest are known...
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    Abelsonite (category Green River Formation)
    The mineral is known only from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation. It has been known from the Uinta Basin in Utah since its discovery...
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    nahcolite (NaHCO3) are found in the Eocene-age (55.8–33.9 Mya) Green River Formation, Piceance Basin in Colorado. Nahcolite was deposited as beds during...
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    Green River is a 384-mile-long (618 km) tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south central Kentucky. Tributaries of the Green River...
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    the Laney Member of the Green River Formation (Mid-Eocene). Below the Laney Member is the exposure of the Wasatch Formation (Lower Eocene). The Sand...
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    Gastornis (category Green River Formation)
    has been based in part on some fibrous strands recovered from a Green River Formation deposit at Roan Creek, Colorado, which were initially believed to...
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    the 1920s. The mountain consists of shale strata belonging to the Green River Formation, exposures of which can be seen on the south side of the pass. "Douglas...
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    Icaronycteris (category Green River Formation)
    specimens, among the best preserved bat fossils, are known from the Green River Formation of North America. The best known species is I. index. Fragmentary...
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    Knightia (category Green River Formation)
    they had detected biological residues in Knightia fossils from the Green River Formation. The genus is also known from two separate species described from...
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    Asterotrygon known from the Green River Formation. A diversity of stingray fossils is known from the Eocene Monte Bolca formation from Italy, including the...
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    Onychonycteris (category Green River Formation)
    million years ago. Two specimens of Onychonycteris were found in the Green River Formation in 2003, and placed in a new family when the discovery was published...
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    America and possibly the world, within the 50-million-year-old Green River Formation — the ancient lake bed. Fossils preserved include fish, alligators...
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