Usage:
Lmuma Creek Member of Ellensburg Formation (WA*)
[NOTE: Previously called †Squaw Creek. Renamed in accordance with the Department of the Interior's Secretarial Order 3404, discontinuing use of derogatory term squaw. See also †Squaw Creek.]
Subunits:
Quincy diatomite bed (informal) (WA*).
Geologic age:
late Tertiary (middle Miocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: on Lmuma Creek [previously called Squaw Creek], in T. 15 N., R. 20 E., [Badger Gap 7.5-min quadrangle], Kittitas Co., WA (Bingham and Grolier, 1966).
[The geographic feature Squaw Creek, from which the geologic name was taken (see Bingham and Grolier, 1966, p. G8), was renamed Lmuma Creek (U.S. Board on Geographic Names, January 1999, USGS GNIS FeatureID 1508662).]
AAPG geologic province:
Eastern Columbia basin*
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