Usage:
Klamath River Conglomerate Member of Hornbrook Formation (CA*,OR*)
Geologic age:
late Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: about 0.4 km west of Klamath River in old open cut mine west of southbound lane of U.S. Interstate Highway I-5, 0.7 km southeast of McCavick Mine, in S/2 SE/4 sec. 32, T. 47 N., R. 6 W., Hornbrook 15-min quadrangle, Siskiyou Co., CA (Nilsen, 1984).
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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