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Geologic Unit: Campbell Mountain

Usage:

Campbell Mountain welding zone (informal) in Bachelor Mountain Member of Carpenter Ridge Tuff (CO*-recognized locally in Creede district)

Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (late Oligocene; Chattian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named from Campbell Mountain, Creede district, [San Luis Peak 7.5-min quadrangle], Mineral Co., southwestern CO (Emmons and Larsen, 1923).


AAPG geologic province:

San Juan Mountains province*


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 ([ ]).