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 ( ).
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