Usage:
Piney Creek Alluvium (CO*)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Holocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: along Piney Creek, an eastern tributary to Cherry Creek, in NW/4 NW/4 sec. 25, T. 5 S., R. 66 W., Denver area, [approx. Lat. 39 deg. 35 min. 33 sec. N., Long. 104 deg. 44 min. 00 sec. W., Piney Creek 7.5-min quadrangle], Arapahoe Co., north-central CO (Hunt, 1954).
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.
"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 ([ ]).