Usage:
Ute Ridge Tuff (CO*)
Geologic age:
early Tertiary (early Oligocene; Rupelian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: lower slopes of Ute Ridge, south of upper Rio Grande, Rio Grande Pyramid 7.5-min quadrangle, Hinsdale Co., southwestern CO (Lipman and others, 1973).
AAPG geologic province:
San Juan Mountains province*
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 ([ ]).