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Publication:

Wood, H.E., II, Chaney, R.W., and and others, 1941, Nomenclature and correlation of the North American continental Tertiary: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 52, no. 1, 48 p.


Summary:

Pg. 18, pl. 1. DeBeque formation. Late Paleocene and Wasatchian of western Colorado, to be named and described by Patterson.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1200, p. 1060).


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