Usage:
No current usage.
(†Badito Formation (CO*) considered same as Sangre de Cristo Formation. See Sangre de Cristo.)
Geologic age:
Pennsylvanian and Permian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Probably named from Badito Peak or town of Badito, just west of Walsenburg quadrangle and in Huerfano Park quadrangle, Walsenburg region, central southern CO (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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