Usage:
Farmers Creek Tuff (CO*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: along Farmers Creek, 1.5 to 4.5 mi east of town of Creede, [in T. 42 N., R. 1 E., Creede 15-min quadrangle (1959 ed.), Mineral Co.], central San Juan Mountains, southwestern CO (Steven and Ratte, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan Mountains province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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