Usage:
Cascabel Formation (AZ)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary (Maastrichtian to Paleocene?)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from Cascabel, 3 km southwest of nearest exposures of Cascabel, Hot Springs Canyon, Galiuro Mountains, Cochise Co., AZ (Goodlin and Mark, 1987).
AAPG geologic province:
Pedregosa basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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