Usage:
Arlington Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
early to middle Permian (Cisuralian to Guadalupian; Wolfcampian to Wordian)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named from Arlington Heights, Plumas Co., northern CA, which is composed of the formation, and where middle member is well exposed (Diller, 1892; US geologic names lexicons, USGS Bull. 896, 1200).
Principal reference locality: Arlington Heights, extending northeast toward Hough Creek to 4,000 ft elevation, in secs. 4 and 5, T. 25 N., R. 10 E., Greenville 15-min quadrangle, [Plumas Co.], northern CA (Harwood, 1992).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada 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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