Usage:
No current usage.
(†Cimarron Creek Latite (CO) abandoned.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in drainage of Cimarron Creek [River], Ouray region, Ouray and Lake City 15-min quadrangles, [Ouray, Hinsdale and Gunnison Cos.], southwestern CO (Cross and others, 1907).
AAPG geologic province:
Piceance basin
San Juan Mountains province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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