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Geologic Unit: Jack's Cabin

Usage:

Jack's Cabin Limestone Member of Gothic Formation (CO)


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)


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

HG measured section, in sec. 21, T. 15 S., R. 84 W., few 100 m northwest of CO Highway 306 up first draw east of Jack's Cabin cutoff road and prominent hogback of Entrada Sandstone, Gunnison Co. [Pitkin Co.?], CO. Named from community of Jack's Cabin (Bartleson, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Eagle basin
Piceance basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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