Usage:
No current usage.
(†Salt Creek Member of Moenkopi Formation (AZ) considered abandoned. Is same as Moqui and Wapatki Members of Moenkopi Formation. See Moqui and Wapatki.)
Geologic age:
Early Triassic
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
A good place to study this member is at mouth of Salt Creek, mouth of Clear Creek, and at southeast corner of Winslow (where it trends in northeast-southwest direction), and also just south of Holbrook, [Navajo Co., northeastern AZ] (Hager, 1921, 1922).
AAPG geologic province:
Black Mesa basin
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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