Usage:
Rowland Formation (OR)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in OR: Diamond Hill Member, Linn Member.
Geologic age:
Quaternary
Pleistocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: banks of Little Muddy Creek, in NW/4 SW/4 sec. 9, T. 15 S., R. 3 W., Linn Co., OR (Balster and Parsons, 1969).
AAPG geologic province:
Cascades 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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