Usage:
No current usage?
(†Deep Creek Basalt (WY) considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the WY Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)
Geologic age:
Pliocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality not designated. Origin of name not stated by author, but probably named from exposures 0.5 mi above Deep Creek, on west side of Yellowstone Canyon in northern Yellowstone National Park, WY (Howard, 1937).
AAPG geologic province:
Yellowstone 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 ([ ]).