Usage:
Buck and Doe Conglomerate (AZ*)
Subunits:
(ascending) --all in AZ*: Milkweed Member, Peach Springs Member.
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene
Eocene, middle to Miocene, early*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in Hindu Canyon, in secs. 20 through 25, T. 27 N., R. 12 W., Gila River and Salt River Principal Meridian, Mohave Co., northwestern AZ. Origin of name not stated, but probably named from "Buck and Doe Road" on the Hualapai Plateau, Grand Canyon area, Mohave Co., AZ (Gray, 1964).
Principal reference section: Milkweed Canyon, Mohave Co., AZ (Young, in press).
AAPG geologic province:
Plateau sedimentary 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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