Usage:
/Bear Wallow Diorite Complex (CA*)
[Term "Complex" is intended for a mass of rock composed of diverse types of any class or classes or is characterized by highly complicated structure. Used as part of the formal name instead of a lithologic or rank term (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021).]
Geologic age:
Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: exposures at mouth of Rattlesnake Creek, in NE/4 sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 8 E., Pickett Peak quadrangle, Trinity Co., northwest CA. Named from Bear Wallow Meadow in north-central part of Pickett Peak quadrangle (Irwin, 1974).
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.
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