Usage:
Douglass Mesa Gravel (CO*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary*
Pleistocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Douglass Mesa, from which unit is named, a prominent mesa between Douglass valley on the south and South Lehman valley on the north, U.S. Air Force Academy Site, El Paso Co., CO (Varnes and Scott, 1967).
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 ([ ]).