Usage:
Succor Creek Formation (ID,OR)
Spelled Sucker Creek in some reports.
Subunits:
Leslie Gulch Tuff Member (OR).
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in S/2 SW/4 sec. 28 and NE/4 NW/4 sec. 33, T. 24 S., R. 46 E., Malheur Co., OR. Named from exposures along Sucker [Succor] Creek (Kittleman and others, 1965).
[Name changed to Sucker Creek in 1929; changed back to Succor Creek in 1966 (U.S. Board on Geographic Names).]
AAPG geologic province:
Snake River 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 ( ).
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