Usage:
Dry Creek Canyon Member of Dakota Sandstone (CO*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along Dry Creek Canyon, in S/2 NW/4 SE/4 sec. 26, T. 18 S., R. 67 W., Pueblo Co., CO. Named from Dry Creek Canyon (Waage, 1953).
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.
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