Usage:
Bath sandstone (informal, unranked) in Pony Spring Siltstone Member of Maroon Formation (CO)
Informal and unranked. The lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Permian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Forms prominent ridge that separates the Platte and Arkansas drainage for several miles northwest of summit of Trout Creek Pass, where is abandoned town of Bath. Named from Bath, Chaffee Co., central CO (Gould, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin
South Park basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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