Usage:
Badger Creek Tuff (CO*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (latest Eocene and/or earliest Oligocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: in valley of East Badger Creek, in NE/4 sec. 12, T. 50 N., R. 10 E., 17.7 km northeast of Salida, Cameron Mountain quadrangle, Fremont Co., central CO (Epis and Chapin, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver basin*
Eagle basin*
South Park 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 ([ ]).