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Geologic Unit: Horsetown

Usage:

Horsetown Formation (CA*)


Subunits:

/Cottonwood Beds.


Geologic age:

Early Cretaceous*


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

Named from exposures at Horsetown, Shasta Co., northwestern CA. Also well exposed on North Fork of Cottonwood Creek (White, 1885).
Type district: Cottonwood district north of delta axis, Tehama Co., CA (Anderson, 1938).


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 ([ ]).