Usage:
Hickey Formation (AZ*)
Subunits:
Luke Salt Member (AZ).
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from "mediocre" exposures on Hickey Mountain, Yavapai Co., AZ (Anderson and Creasey, 1958).
Type section: Hickey Mountain, Mingus Mountain quadrangle, Yavapai Co., AZ (Anderson and Blacet, 1972).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range 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 ([ ]).