Usage:
Scotia Bluffs Sandstone of Wildcat Group (CA*)
Scotia Bluffs Formation of Wildcat Group (CA)
Geologic age:
Quaternary (Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: along Scotia Bluffs on east side of Eel River, Humboldt Co., northwestern CA (Ogle, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Eel River basin*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.
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