Usage:
Fryingpan Member of Maroon Formation (CO*)
Geologic age:
Permian, Early(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): (1) lower part, north of Fryingpan River, 1,350 to 1,800 m west of Ruedi Reservoir, in SW/4 sec. 12 and NW/4 sec. 13, T. 8 S., R. 85 W.; (2) upper part, in small quarry north of Fryingpan River, in SE/4 sec. 11, T. 8 S., R. 85 W., Pitkin Co., CO (Johnson, 1989).
Reference section: in Dry Woody Creek, in NE/4 sec. 34, T. 8 S., R. 85 W. (Johnson, 1989).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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