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Geologic Unit: Squaw Peak

Usage:

No current usage.
(†/Squaw Peak Formation (CA) not used since its introduction, considered invalid. Rocks now included in Cedar Pass complex (informal). See Cedar Pass.)

[Conflicts with several articles in nomenclature guidelines (ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). Not adopted by the California Geological Survey or the USGS.]


Geologic age:

Tertiary


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

[Type locality not stated.] Named from exposures on east slope of Squaw Peak [now called Milk Peak, Warren Peak 7.5-min quadrangle, Modoc Co., northeastern CA] (Hulbe, 1980).


AAPG geologic province:

Southern Oregon basin


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 ([ ]).