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Geologic Unit: San Miguel

Usage:

No current usage.
(†San Miguel Conglomerate (CO) replaced with Telluride Conglomerate. See Telluride.)


Geologic age:

early Tertiary (early Eocene)


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

Typically exposed on north side of San Miguel River, from Marshall Creek westward for several mi, Telluride district, southwestern CO (Cross, 1896).


AAPG geologic province:

Paradox basin
San Juan Mountains province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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