Geologic Unit: Price River

Usage:

Price River Formation (CO,UT)
Price River Formation of Mesaverde Group (CO*,UT*)

Subunits:

(alphabetical): Bluecastle Sandstone Member (UT*), Buck Shale Member (UT), Cameo Member (CO), Castlegate Sandstone Member, (UT) Corcoran Member (CO), Cozzette Member (CO), Farrer Member (CO,UT), Neslen Member (UT), Sulphur Canyon Sandstone Bed (UT), Thompson Canyon Sandstone Bed (UT).

Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)*

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

Named from exposures in Price River Canyon, northwest of town of Castlegate (Castle Gate formerly at mouth of Willow Creek, Castle Gate 15-min quadrangle, 1916 ed., Carbon Co.), central eastern UT (Spieker and Reeside, 1925).

AAPG geologic province:

Paradox basin*
Wasatch uplift*
Great Basin province*
Uinta basin*