Usage:
Tracy Creek Quartz Latite (CO*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (Oligocene and Eocene?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from exposures along Tracy Creek [now Tracy Canyon]; Saguache and Del Norte quadrangles, [Saguache Co.], southwestern CO (Cross and Larsen, 1935).
AAPG geologic province:
San Luis basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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