Usage:
Dotsero Formation (CO*)
Dotsero Dolomite (CO)
Dotsero Formation of Horseshoe Mountain Group (CO)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Clinetop Algal Member (CO*) or Clinetop Member (CO*), Glenwood Canyon Member (CO*).
Geologic age:
Late Cambrian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from good exposures in northeastern end of Glenwood Canyon near Dotsero, [Dotsero 7.5-min quadrangle, Eagle Co.], central northwestern CO; about 100 mi west of Denver (Bassett, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin*
Piceance 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 ([ ]).