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Geologic Unit: Trail Creek

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Trail Creek Granite (CO) replaced with "Virginia Dale ring-dike complex". See Virginia Dale.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Trail Creek Formation of Ross (1934) in ID.]


Geologic age:

Mesoproterozoic


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type locality: near Livermore-Tie siding area, in northern Front Range-southern Laramie Range, CO-WY (Eggler, 1967).


AAPG geologic province:

not stated


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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