Usage:
Priest Canyon Formation (CO)
Priest Canyon Member of Fremont Formation (CO)
Geologic age:
Late Ordovician
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
"Typical section": in Priest Canyon, in sec. 13, T. 18 S., R. 71 W., Fremont Co., CO. Named from Priest Canyon (Sweet, 1954).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver basin
Eagle basin
Las Vegas-Raton basin
San Luis basin
Piceance basin
South Park 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 ([ ]).