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Geologic Unit: Mount Ord

Usage:

Mount Ord glaciation [informal] (AZ-applied locally to deposits on north face of Mount Ord in the White Mountains, Apache Co.)

Considered informal. The rank or lithologic term should not be capitalized.


Geologic age:

Quaternary (Holocene)


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Not designated. Origin of name not stated by authors, but probably named from Mount Ord in the White Mountains, Apache Co., AZ (Merrill and Pewe, 1972).


AAPG geologic province:

Black Mesa basin


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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