Usage:
Coffee Pot Member of Dyer Formation of Chaffee Group (CO)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian or Early Mississippian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: in cliffs along southeast side of Deep Creek, 1 mi northeast of Coffee Pot Springs, Garfield Co., CO. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Coffee Pot Springs (Campbell, 1970).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin
Green River basin
Piceance basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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