Usage:
Artist Drive Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary (Oligocene? to early Pliocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Typically exposed in west face of Black Mountains near Artist Drive in Death Valley, Inyo Co., eastern CA (Noble, 1941; name credited to T.P. Thayer).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin 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 ([ ]).