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Geologic Unit: Sycamore Creek

Usage:

No current usage?
(†Sycamore Creek Sandstone Member of Jerome Formation (AZ), also called Sycamore in some reports, considered abandoned? Uncertain if used by the AZ Geol. Survey. Not used by the USGS.)


Geologic age:

Late Devonian


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

Notable exposures at Sycamore Creek, a tributary of East Verde River, Coconino and Yavapai Cos., northeastern and central AZ (Lausen and Wilson, 1925; Stoyanow, 1926).


AAPG geologic province:

Basin-and-Range 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 ([ ]).