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Geologic Unit: Starvation Flat

Usage:

Starvation Flat Quartz Monzonite (ID?,WA*)


Geologic age:

Cretaceous*


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

Type area: exposures within 1.6 km of Starvation Flat, 21 km north of Chewelah, along Little Bear Creek, in NE/4 sec. 10, T. 34 N., R. 40 E., Stevens Co., WA (Clark and Miller, 1968).


AAPG geologic province:

Northern Cascade Range-Okanagan province*


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 ([ ]).