Dry Cottonwood Creek

Occurrence in Teton county in Wyoming, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10069107
MRDS ID W002505
Record type Site
Current site name Dry Cottonwood Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -110.27772, 43.57603 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Teton(county)

Wyoming(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Upper Slide Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Jackson Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Driggs(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gros Ventre(hydrologic unit)

Snake Headwaters(hydrologic accounting unit)

Upper Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bridger-Teton National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Wyoming Teton

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
042N 112W 27 Wyoming

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -110.27772, 43.57603

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOUSTON, R.S., AND MURPHY, J.F., 1970, FOSSIL BEACH PLACERS IN SANDSTONES OF LATE CRETACEOUS AGE IN WYOMING AND OTHER ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES: WYOMING GEOL. ASSOC. ANN. FIELD CONF., 22D, GUIDEBOOK, SYMPOSIUM ON WYOMING SANDSTONES, P. 241-249

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1973 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.