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Geologic Unit: Cinnabar

Usage:

Cinnabar Tuff Tongue of Fields Creek Formation of Aldrich Mountains Group (OR*)


Geologic age:

Triassic, Late*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Named for outcrops on Cinnabar Mountain. Forms most of peaks in Aldrich Mountains, Mount Vernon quadrangle, Grant Co., northeastern OR (Brown and Thayer, 1966b, USGS GQ-548).


AAPG geologic province:

Blue 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 ([ ]).