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Geologic Unit: Astoria

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Astoria Sandstone (OR, WA) abandoned.)

[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Astoria Shale by Cope (1880) in same area.]


Geologic age:

Miocene


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

Named from Astoria, Clatsop Co., northwestern OR (Dall and Harris, 1892).


AAPG geologic province:

Oregon-Washington Coast Ranges 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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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).