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Geologic Unit: Junction Creek

Usage:

Junction Creek Sandstone (CO*)
Junction Creek Sandstone Member of Wanakah Formation of San Rafael Group (CO*)


Geologic age:

Late Jurassic*


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

Not designated. Named from exposures opposite Animas City Mountain [part of Durango], between Junction Creek and Animas River, La Plata Co., CO (Goldman and Spencer, 1941).


AAPG geologic province:

Paradox basin*
Piceance basin*
San Juan basin*
San Luis 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 ([ ]).