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Geologic Unit: Blickensderfer

Usage:

Blickensderfer Quartz Monzonite (ID*,WA*)


Geologic age:

Cretaceous*


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

Exposures in headwaters of Blickensderfer Creek, in sec. 33, T. 34 N., R. 45 E., Newport 1 quadrangle, Pend Oreille Co., WA (Miller, 1974).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Cascade Range-Okanagan province
Idaho Mountains 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 ([ ]).