Usage:
Mount Morrison Sandstone (CA*)
Geologic age:
Ordovician or Silurian(?)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Low ridges immediately west of Convict Lake, Mount Morrison 15-min quadrangle, Mono Co., CA (Rinehart and Ross, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Sierra Nevada 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 ([ ]).