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Rock Springs Uplift
The Rock Springs Uplift is an area of uplifted Cretaceous to Eocene rocks in Wyoming surrounded and once covered by sediments of the Green River Formation which were deposited in the Eocene Lake Gosiute.〔Surdam, Ronald C. and K. O. Stanley, ''Lacustrine sedimentation during the culminating phase of Eocene Lake Gosiute, Wyoming (Green River Formation),'' Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1979, 90, no. 1, pp. 93-110〕 The Rock Springs Uplift formed in the Late Cretaceous through the Eocene and is related to the Laramide orogeny.〔Selena Mederos, Basil Tikoff1 and Viki Bankey: ''Geometry, timing, and continuity of the Rock Springs uplift, Wyoming, and Douglas Creek arch, Colorado'', Rocky Mountain Geology, Volume 40, Number 2, p. 167-191, December 2005 (Abstract )〕 The structure is a north–south trending anticline〔(''Rock Springs Uplift,'' Wyoming Geological Survey )〕 with a surface expression of approximately by .〔''Rock Springs, Wyoming,'' 1 x 2 minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1962〕 The community of Rock Springs is located on the western margin of the uplift.
==Features==
* White Mountain
* Aspen Mountain
* Wilkins Peak
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