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Geologic Unit: Monument Creek

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Monument Creek Group (CO) reallocated to Castle Rock Conglomerate and Dawson Arkose. See Castle Rock and Dawson.)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (Oligocene)


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

Notable exposures along Monument Creek, [Castle Rock and Colorado Springs quadrangles], El Paso Co., eastern central CO (Hayden, 1869).


AAPG geologic province:

Denver basin


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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