Usage:
Ohio Creek Member of Mesaverde Formation (CO*)
Ohio Creek Member of Hunter Canyon Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO*)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: Ohio Creek, Gunnison Co., western central CO (Johnson and May, 1980).
Principal reference section: Hunter Canyon, in T. 8 and 9 S., R. 100 W., Mesa Co., western central CO (Johnson and May, 1980).
[Mapped along Ohio Creek, Anthracite 15-min quadrangle, Gunnison Co., western central CO (see Emmons and others, 1894, USGS Geol. Atlas of the US, Anthracite-Crested Butte folio, no. 9).]
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 ([ ]).