Usage:
Rector Conglomerate Member of Budden Canyon Formation (CA)
Geologic age:
Early Cretaceous
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Named for typical development along Rector Creek, a small tributary to North Fork of Cottonwood Creek at Ono, Shasta Co., CA (Murphy, 1956).
Reference section [Rector Conglomerate Member]: in bed of Rector Creek, just south of Ono [in sec. 2, T. 30 N., R. 7 W., Ono 15-min quadrangle] Shasta Co., CA (Murphy and others, 1964).
AAPG geologic province:
Sacramento basin
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