Usage:
Budden Canyon Formation (CA)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in CA: Aiken Member, Bald Hills Member, Chickabally Mudstone Member, Gas Point Member, Huling Member, Ogo Member, Rector Conglomerate Member, Roaring River Member.
Geologic age:
Early to Late Cretaceous (Hauterivian to Turonian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along State Route 36 (Dry Creek-Budden Canyon), from secs. 35 and 36, T. 29 N., R. 8 W. to sec. 18, T. 28 N., R. 6 W., Ono 15-min quadrangle, Tehama Co., CA (Murphy and others, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Sacramento basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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