Usage:
Denver Formation (CO*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Golden Member (CO), Pleasant View Member (CO).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary (Paleocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from its occurrence around the city of Denver, Denver Co., CO (Cross, 1888).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver 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 ([ ]).