Usage:
Wildcat Group (CA*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in CA*: Carlotta Formation, Eel River Formation, Pullen Formation, Rio Dell Formation, Scotia Bluffs Formation or Scotia Bluffs Sandstone.
Geologic age:
late Tertiary to Quaternary (Miocene to Pleistocene)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality (for group): along Eel River from west of Scotia, Humboldt Co., north to Van Duzen River (Ogle, 1953).
Region occupied by terrace is commonly known to people of Humboldt Co. as "Wild-cat Country" [hence the name] (Lawson, 1894; Ogle, 1953).
AAPG geologic province:
Eel 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 ( ).
Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).