National Geologic Map Database
Geologic Unit: Mount Antero
Usage:
Geologic age:
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
AAPG geologic province:
Usage:
Mount Antero Granite (CO*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Oligocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
On Mount Antero, from which unit is named, Chaffee Co., CO (Dings and Robinson, 1957).
AAPG geologic province:
Eagle basin*
Piceance 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 ([ ]).