Usage:
Parachute Creek Member of Green River Formation (CO*,UT*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical): Horse Bench Sandstone Bed (UT), Kimball Mountain Bed (CO).
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Eocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from exposures along part of Parachute Creek, in T. 5, 6, and 7 S., R. 95 and 96 W., Garfield Co., CO (Bradley, 1931).
AAPG geologic province:
Piceance basin*
Uinta 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 ([ ]).