Usage:
Antelope Mountain Quartzite (CA*)
Geologic age:
Paleozoic (Ordovician? and/or Silurian?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: main ridge of Antelope Mountain, in secs. 26 and 35, T. 44 N., R. 7 W., and secs. 2, 3, and 10, in T. 43 N., R. 7 W., Yreka 15-min quadrangle, Siskiyou Co., northern CA (Hotz, 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
Klamath 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 ([ ]).