Usage:
Boxer Formation (CA)
Subunits:
Salt Creek Conglomerate Member (CA).
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type section:] low hills adjacent to Boxer Valley and west-facing slope of Cortina Ridge, Wilbur Springs quadrangle, Colusa Co., CA (Ingersoll and others, 1977).
AAPG geologic province:
Sacramento basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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