Usage:
Bowie Shale Member of Williams Fork Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO)
Bowie Shale Member of Mesaverde Formation (CO)
Bowie Shale Member of Mesaverde Formation (CO*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed at Bowie, Delta Co., central western CO (Lee, 1909).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin
Piceance basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).