Usage:
/Deep Creek Formation (CA)
/Deep Creek Conglomerate (CA)
[Conflicts with several articles in nomenclature guidelines (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021).]
Geologic age:
Oligocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
[Type locality not stated. Crops out along western side of Surprise Valley, at foot of Warner Mountains, northeastern CA. Origin of name not stated, but probably named from North Deep Creek and South Deep Creek, Cedarville 7.5-min quadrangle, Modoc Co., northeastern CA (California Department of Water Resources, 1963).]
AAPG geologic province:
Southern Oregon basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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