Usage:
Hawkins Creek Member of Modin Formation (CA)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type area: section in Devils Canyon beginning at contact with overlying Devils Canyon member about 1 mi west of confluence of Devils Canyon and Alder Creek, extending west along Devils Canyon to contact with Brock shale, Big Bend quadrangle. Shasta Co., northern CA. Named from exposures near head of Hawkins Creek in vicinity of Little Meadows (Sanborn, 1953, 1960).
AAPG geologic province:
Klamath Mountains province
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