Usage:
Castlegate Sandstone of Mesaverde Group (CO*,UT*)
Castlegate Sandstone (UT)
Castlegate Sandstone Member of Price River Formation of Mesaverde Group (UT)
Subunits:
FORMATION STATUS: Bluecastle Tongue (UT).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Castlegate, Carbon Co., Book Cliffs, eastern UT, where it forms a gate-like passage in Price River Canyon 2 +/- mi above the town (US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
AAPG geologic province:
Green River basin*
Paradox basin*
Piceance basin*
Uinta 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 ( ).
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