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Geologic Unit: Clinetop

Usage:

Clinetop Algal Limestone Member of Dotsero Formation (CO*)
Clinetop Member of Dotsero Formation (CO*)


Geologic age:

Late Cambrian*


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

Near Sixmile Lake, in NE/4 sec. 35, T. 3 S., R. 90 W., and SW/4 sec. 23, T. 3 S., R. 90 W., Garfield Co., CO. Named from exposures in the Clinetop country, in T. 3 and 4 S., R. 90 W., Garfield Co., CO (Bass and Northrop, 1953).


AAPG geologic province:

Piceance basin*
Eagle basin*


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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).