Usage:
Tallahassee Creek Conglomerate (CO*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (late Eocene? and early Oligocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: at junction of three forks of Tallahassee Creek, in sec. 31, T. 17 S., R. 72 W., and sec. 36, T. 17 S., R. 73 W., Cover Mountain and Black Mountain quadrangles, Fremont Co., CO (Epis and Chapin, 1974).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver 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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