Usage:
Williams Canyon Limestone (CO*)
Williams Canyon Formation (CO*)
Geologic age:
Early Mississippian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed near Cave of Winds, in Williams Canyon at Manitou, El Paso Co., eastern CO (Brainerd and others, 1933).
AAPG geologic province:
Denver basin*
Las Vegas-Raton basin*
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 ([ ]).