Usage:
Cozzette Member of Mesaverde Formation (CO,UT)
Cozzette Member of Mount Garfield Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO*)
Cozzette Member of Price River Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO)
Cozzette Sandstone Member of Iles Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO)
Cozzette Sandstone Member of Mount Garfield Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures near the old Cozzette Mine, north of Palisade, Mesa Co., CO (Young, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Piceance basin*
Eagle 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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).