Usage:
Summitville Andesite (CO*-recognized locally in Platoro caldera area, Rio Grande Co.)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Oligocene; Rupelian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from extensive development in vicinity of Summitville, [Summitville 7.5-min quadrangle], Rio Grande Co., southwestern CO (Larsen, IN Patton, 1917).
AAPG geologic province:
San Luis basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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