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Geologic Unit: Oak Creek

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Oak Creek Member of Supai Formation (AZ) included in Earp Formation (AZ-eastern Mogollon rim) and Hermit Formation (AZ-western and central Mogollon rim). See Earp and Hermit.)


Geologic age:

Pennsylvanian


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

Notable exposures at Fossil Creek, [along Yavapai-Gila Co. line], east-central AZ (Jackson, 1951).


AAPG geologic province:

Basin-and-Range province
Plateau sedimentary province


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

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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