Usage:
Devils Canyon Soil (WA)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (late Pleistocene)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality (composite): in Chaney-Palouse Scabland Tract of the Channeled Scabland, Adams Co., southeastern WA. Named from Devils Canyon (McDonald and Busacca, 1992).
AAPG geologic province:
Eastern Columbia basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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