Usage:
Bouse Formation (AZ*,CA*,NV*)
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (late Miocene and Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (subsurface): depth-interval 114 to 881 ft, USGS test well LCRP 27, in NE/4 NE/4 NE/4 sec. 31, T. 7 N., R. 21 W., Gila and Salt River base line and meridian, Poston 7.5-min quadrangle, Yuma Co., Colorado River Indian Reservation, western AZ (Metzger, 1968).
Reference sections (outcrop): (1) south of Bouse Wash and east of Colorado River floodplain, in SW/4 sec. 26 and SE/4 sec. 27, T. 8 N., R. 20 W., Gila and Salt River base line and meridian, [Parker SE and Moon Mtn NE 7.5-min quadrangles], Yuma Co., Colorado River Indian Reservation, western AZ; (2) basal limestone exposed southeast of Cibola, in secs. 9 and 16, T. 2 S., R. 23 W., Gila and Salt River base line and meridian, [Cibola and Picacho NW 7.5-min quadrangles], Yuma Co., western AZ (Metzger, 1968).
Named from Bouse Wash, Yuma Co., western AZ. Bouse (rhymes with house) (Metzger, 1968).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
Mojave basin*
Plateau sedimentary province*
Salton basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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