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Geologic Unit: Leavick Tarn

Usage:

Leavick Tarn Member of Manitou Formation (CO)
Leavick Tarn Dolomite Member of Manitou Formation (CO)


Geologic age:

Early Ordovician


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

Type section: on north wall of a cirque, east side of Horseshoe Mountain, about 0.25 mi east of and along western Park Co. line, between secs. 7 and 18, T. 10 S., R. 78 W., Park Co., CO (Gerhard, 1974).


AAPG geologic province:

Denver basin
Piceance basin
South Park basin


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

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