Usage:
/Box Canyon Member of Tiger Formation (WA)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Box Canyon Member of Mutual Quartzite by Williams (1953) in UT.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: road and stream cuts northwest and west of Box Canyon Dam on Pen Oreille River, in SE/4 SE/4 SW/4 sec. 18 and N/2 NW/4 sec. 19, T. 38 N., R. 43 E., and E/2 sec. 13, T. 38 N., R. 42 E., Pend Oreille Co., WA. (Gager, 1983).
AAPG geologic province:
Northern Cascade Range-Okanagan province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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