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Geologic Unit: Pleasant View

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Pleasant View Member of /Arapahoe-Denver Formation (CO-recognized locally in Golden area) reallocated to Denver Formation. See Denver.)

[The assignment of a unit to 2 adjacent formations, in one vertical sequence, is considered informal nomenclature (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). The use of a hyphen between undifferentiated formations is not considered proper notation (see CSN, 1933, Art. 13a).]


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary (Paleocene)


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

Not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from town of Pleasant View, south and east of Golden, Jefferson Co., CO (LeRoy, 1946).


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 ([ ]).