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  • Usage in publication:
    • Cripple Creek breccia
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Denver basin
Publication:

Cross, Whitman, 1894, Pikes Peak folio, Colorado, with a desccription of Cripple Creek special map by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr.: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Atlas of the United States Folio, GF-7, 7 p., scale 1:125,000


Summary:

[Cross mapped this formation as andesitic breccia (Tertiary; Teller County, eastern Colorado). The geographic name is considered unnecessary and has fallen into disuse.]

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 896, p. 544).


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

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"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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