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Geologic Unit: Farrer

Usage:

Farrer Formation of Mesaverde Group (UT*)
Farrer Formation (CO)
Farrer Member of Price River Formation (CO,UT)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Named from a coal mine [Farrer?] in Coal Canyon, in T. 21 S., R. 17 E., Grand Co., UT (Fisher, 1936).
Type section: in T. 20 S., R. 17 and 18 E., T. 19 S., R. 19 E., Grand Co., UT (Franczyk and others, 1990).


AAPG geologic province:

Paradox basin*
Uinta 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 ([ ]).