Usage:
Cocoraque Formation (AZ*)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type localities: along a northeast-trending dry creek and trail about 4 mi south-southeast of Cocoraque Ranch, and along a northeast-trending creek about 1 mi south of the ranch, Roskruge Mountains, Pima Co., AZ (Heindl, 1965).
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.
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