Usage:
Denny Creek Granodiorite of Routt Plutonic Suite (CO*)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: exposures along Denny Creek at altitudes of 10,800 to 11,000 ft, Sawatch Range, Chaffee Co., CO. Named from Denny Creek (Barker and Brock, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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