Usage:
Cottonwood Draw sandstone (informal, unranked) in Black Dragon Member of Moenkopi Formation (UT)
Informal and unranked. The lithologic term should not be capitalized.
Geologic age:
Early Triassic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from Cottonwood Draw on northwest side of San Rafael Swell, Emery Co., southeastern UT (R.C. Blakey, 1974, Utah Geol. Min. Survey Bull., no. 104, 81 p.).
AAPG geologic province:
Paradox basin
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