Usage:
Bridle Formation (AZ*)
Geologic age:
Paleoproterozoic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Crops out in two belts in southern part of Bagdad area, Yavapai Co., west-central AZ. Named from Bridle Creek, [south of Bagdad, in T. 14 N., R. 9 W., Bagdad quadrangle, Yavapai Co., west-central AZ] (Anderson and others, 1955).
AAPG geologic province:
Southwestern Basin-and-Range region*
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