Characteristic white or silvery colored Mowry Shale below the Mancos Shale, west of Dinosaur National Monument.
Type
Geological formation
Location
Region
Johnson County, Wyoming
Type section
Named by
N. H. Darton in 1904
Mancos Shale and Mowry shale oil and gas fields within the Uinta Basin and Piceance BasinStratigraphic column showing the relationship of the Mancos and Mowry shales
The Mowry Shale is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation.[1] The formation was named for Mowrie Creek, northwest of Buffalo in Johnson County, Wyoming.[2]
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