Usage:
Church Creek Formation (CA*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Eocene, middle*
Eocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along sides of draw leading north from fossil locality 7475, north to localities 7414 and 7470, valley of Church Creek, in sec. 13, T. 19 S., R. 3 E., Monterey Co., CA (Dickinson, 1965).
AAPG geologic province:
California Coast Ranges 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 ([ ]).