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Geologic Unit: Ashby Creek

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Ashby Creek Conglomerate Member of Doyle Creek Formation (OR,ID) considered abandoned?)


Geologic age:

Triassic, Late


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

Type section: on ridge north of Ashby Creek [Lat. 45 deg. 03 min. 57 sec. N., Long. 116 deg. 47 min. 35 sec. W., Homestead 15-min quadrangle, Baker Co., OR] (Vallier 1967).


AAPG geologic province:

Blue Mountains province
Snake River basin


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 ([ ]).