Usage:
No current usage.
(†Whitsett limestone lentils [informal] (OR*) considered abandoned.)
Geologic age:
Late Cretaceous*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
One of lentils occurs near J.H. Whitsett's, in secs. 14 and 15, T. 28 S., R. 5 W., Roseburg quadrangle, southwestern OR (Diller, 1898).
AAPG geologic province:
Western Columbia 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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