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Geologic Unit: Jacque Mountain

Usage:

Jacque Mountain Limestone Member of Minturn Formation (CO*)
[?] Jacque Mountain Limestone Member of Eagle Valley Evaporite (CO*)


Geologic age:

Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian)*


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

Notable exposures on Jacque Mountain [now Jacque Ridge] in central part Tenmile quadrangle, Tenmile district, Summit Co., CO (Emmons, 1898; see also Widmann and others, 2004, Colorado Geol. Survey Open-file Rpt., Geologic map of Copper Mountain quadrangle, no. OF03-20, scale 1:24,000).
[Jacque Ridge, Lat. 39 deg. 28 min. 11 sec. N., Long. 106 deg. 12 min. 29 sec. W, Copper Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle, Summit Co., CO (USGS GNIS database, accessed Mother's Day 2018).]


AAPG geologic province:

Eagle basin*


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