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Geologic Unit: Yonna

Usage:

No current usage.
(Rocks of †Yonna Formation (OR) reallocated to several unnamed units.)


Geologic age:

late Tertiary (latest Miocene to early Pliocene)


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

Type locality: along west side of Yonna Valley, in T. 38 S., R. 11 1/2 E., Klamath Co., Willamette meridian and baseline, Klamath Co., southwestern OR (Newcomb, 1958).


AAPG geologic province:

Southern Oregon 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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