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Geologic Unit: Plainview

Usage:

Plainview Sandstone Member of South Platte Formation of Dakota Group (CO*,WY*)
Plainview Formation of Dakota Group (CO)


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous*


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

Not designated. Named from exposures in the cut of the Denver and Salt Lake RR through the Dakota hogback at Plainview, in NE/4 NE/4 sec. 12, T. 2 S., R. 71 W., Jefferson Co., CO (Waage, 1955).


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 ([ ]).