Usage:
/Cave Creek Alluvium (AZ)
[Preoccupied. Name previously applied to Cave Creek Formation by Enlows (1955) in Cochise Co., AZ.]
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Holocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Exposures in Cave Creek channel in town of Cave Creek, Cave Creek quadrangle, northern Maricopa Co., AZ, (Doorn and Pewe, 1991).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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