Usage:
Coughs Creek Tongue of Green River Formation (CO*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured on west side of Cow Creek, in SW/4 SE/4 sec. 12, T. 4 S., R. 95 W., Rio Blanco Co., CO. Named from Coughs Creek, a tributary to Cow Creek, which is a tributary to Piceance Creek (O'Sullivan, 1975).
AAPG geologic province:
Piceance basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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