Usage:
Burro Canyon Formation (AZ*,CO*,NM*,UT*)
Subunits:
Karla Kay Conglomerate Member (CO*,UT*).
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Albian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Burro Canyon, in sec. 29, T. 44 N., R. 18 W., San Miguel Co., CO. Named from Burro Canyon (Stokes and Phoenix, 1948).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin*
San Juan basin*
Piceance basin*
Eagle 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 ([ ]).