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Geologic Unit: Apache Wash

Usage:

Apache Wash facies (informal) in McCoy Mountains Formation (AZ)

Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

Jurassic and Cretaceous


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

Type locality not designated. Origin of name not stated by authors (Richard and others, 1987).


AAPG geologic province:

Basin-and-Range 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 ([ ]).