Usage:
Recreation Red Beds (AZ*)
Geologic age:
Triassic* or Jurassic*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named because of its color and occurrence in Tucson Recreational area [Saguaro National Park]. Practically confined to Red Hills and numerous small outcrops in zone of the great thrust east of Amole Peak, Tucson Mountains, Pima Co., southeastern AZ (Brown, 1939).
AAPG geologic province:
Basin-and-Range 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 ([ ]).