Usage:
Difficulty Creek Latite (CO)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (Miocene to Pliocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Notable exposures in Difficulty Creek, Ouray region, Ouray 15-min quadrangle, Ouray Co., southwestern CO (Cross and others, 1907).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan Mountains province
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