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Geologic Unit: Telluride

Usage:

Telluride Conglomerate (CO*)
Telluride Formation (CO*)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (early Eocene)*


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

Named from exposures about town of Telluride and throughout Telluride quadrangle, [in San Miguel, Dolores, and San Juan Cos.], southwestern CO (Cross, 1901).


AAPG geologic province:

Paradox basin*
San Juan Mountains province*


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 ([ ]).