Outcrop of the Fountain Formation at Garden of the Gods. Scale bar on notebook is 10 centimetres (3.9 in)
Type
sedimentary
Underlies
Lyons Formation
Overlies
Gleneyrie Formation
Thickness
0–4,500 feet (0–1,372 m)[1]
Lithology
Primary
sandstone, conglomerate
Other
limestone, shale
Location
Region
Denver Basin
Extent
Colorado, Wyoming
Type section
Named for
Fountain Creek
Named by
C. W. Cross, 1894
The Fountain Formation is a Pennsylvanian bedrock unit consisting primarily of conglomerate, sandstone, or arkose, in the states of Colorado and Wyoming in the United States, along the east side of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and along the west edge of the Denver Basin.
^Frederickson, E.A., De Lay, M., and Saylor, W.W., 1956, Ralston formation of Canon City embayment, Colorado: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 40, no. 9, p. 2120-2148.
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