Usage:
Nye Mudstone (OR*)
Geologic age:
late Oligocene to early Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: town of Newport and at Nye Beach, in NW/4 sec. 5, T. 11 S., R. 11 W., Lincoln Co., northwestern OR (Schenck, 1927).
AAPG geologic province:
Western Columbia 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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).