Usage:
Lyons Sandstone (CO*)
Geologic age:
early Permian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Best developed at Lyons, a few mi north of Boulder distrcit as mapped, [Boulder Co.], central northern CO, where it is quarried in large amounts (Fenneman, 1905; see Lee, 1927).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver basin*
Las Animas arch*
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 ([ ]).