Usage:
Wildcat Basin Rhyolite Member of Strawberry Volcanics (OR*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Miocene, late*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Tuffs and flows extending southwestward from vent complex, in head of Indian Creek, just north of Wildcat Basin, Grant Co., OR (Thayer and others, 1981).
AAPG geologic province:
Blue Mountains province*
Columbia 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 ([ ]).