Usage:
McCoy Mountains Formation (AZ*,CA*)
Subunits:
(informal): Ranegras member, Apache Wash facies.
Geologic age:
Jurassic and Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not designated. Named from McCoy Mountains, Riverside Co., CA (Miller, 1944).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range province*
Salton basin*
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 ([ ]).