Usage:
Hosselkus Limestone (CA*)
Geologic age:
Triassic, Late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not synopsized to date. Named from fact it forms prominent ledges on divide between Genesee Valley and Hosselkus Creek, 1 mi northeast of Hosselkus Ranch, Plumas Co., CA (Diller, 1908).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada province
Klamath Mountains province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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