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Geologic Unit: Hindu

Usage:

Hindu Fanglomerate (AZ*)


Geologic age:

Late Cretaceous to Eocene, probably Paleocene to Eocene


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type section: Lost Man Canyon, Lat. 35 deg. 40 min. 40 sec. N., Long. 113 deg. 29 min. 00 sec. W., in NE/4 NE/4 SW/4 sec. 31, T. 27 N., R. 11 W., UTM Grid 12STQ749514, Peach Springs Canyon 7.5-min quadrangle [1967 ed.], Mohave Co., AZ. (Gray, 1964; Billingsley and others, 1999, USGS Misc. Inv. Ser. I-2554, p. 47).


AAPG geologic province:

Plateau sedimentary 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 ([ ]).