Usage:
No current usage?
(†Kangaroo Formation (CO) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the CO Geol. Survey. Abandoned by the USGS, is considered same as Belden Shale and upper part of Minturn Formation. See Belden and Minturn.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Kangaroo Gulch, about 2 mi north of Monarch, Monarch district, Chaffee Co., central CO (Crawford, 1913).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin
Piceance basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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