Usage:
Gilman Sandstone of Chaffee Group (CO*)
Geologic age:
Late Devonian or Early Mississippian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures on cliffs of Eagle Canyon, at Gilman, Pando area, [Minturn 7.5-min quadrangle], Eagle Co., west-central CO (Tweto, 1949).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin*
Piceance 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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