Usage:
Hunters Cove Formation (OR)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous (Campanian)
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: measured at first headland north of cape (on line between secs. 25 and 36, T. 37 S., R. 15 W.), Gold Beach 15-min quadrangle, Curry Co., OR (Dott, 1971).
Type area: neck of cape from Black Rock to first headland north of cape (Dott, 1971).
AAPG geologic province:
Oregon-Washington Coast Ranges province
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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