Usage:
/Catalina suite [informal] (AZ)
Informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized. [Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Catalina Schist by Woodford (1924) in CA.]
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Oligocene, late
Miocene, early
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Occurs in northwestern Santa Catalina and southern Tortolita, and eastern Rincon Mountains, Pinal and Pima Cos., AZ. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Santa Catalina Mountains (Keith and others, 1980).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).