Usage:
No current usage.
(†/Sawatch Schist (CO) considered obsolete and invalid.)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Sawatch Quartzite of Eldridge (1894) in CO.]
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality and origin of name not stated by authors (Stark and Barnes, 1935). Probably named from Sawatch Range, central CO.]
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Rocky Mountain region
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 ([ ]).