Usage:
No current usage.
(†Blue Gate Sandstone Member of Mancos Shale (UT) replaced with Emery Sandstone Member. See Emery.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Blue Gate. Gilbert's (1877) name for the part of the Fremont River valley between North and South Caineville Mesas (see Hunt and others, 1953, USGS Prof. Paper 228, p. 21, pl. 2).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox 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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