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Geologic Unit: Cottonwood Wash

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Cottonwood Wash Formation (AZ) considered obsolete. Replaced with Rainbow Gardens Member of Horse Spring Formation [now Rainbow Gardens Formation]. See Rainbow Gardens.)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous(?) or Eocene(?)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Cottonwood Wash, in sec. 18, T. 37 N., R. 15 W., Mohave Co., AZ (Moore, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Plateau sedimentary 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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