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Changes in Stratigraphic Nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey 1965 Changes in Stratigraphic Nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey 1965 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1244-A Changes in Stratigraphic Nomenclature by the U.S. Geological Survey 1965 By GEORGE V. COHEE and WALTER S. WEST CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1244-A UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1966 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY William T. Pecora, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.G. 20402 - Price 25 cents (paper cover) CONTENTS Pag* Listings of nomenclatural changes..-_-_-__--________________________ Al New names adopted for official use in U.S. Geological Survey reports. _ 2 Previously used names adopted for official use in U.S. Geological Survey reports_ ________________________________________ 8 Stratigraphic names revised____---_-__-_------_-----------__-__- 11 Changes in age designation _______________________________ 16 Stratigraphic names reinstated -_-------_-_-------________ 22 Stratigraphic names abandoned __-___-_---___--_--_-___-___.. 22 Columbia River Group, by T. P. Thayer and C. Ervin Brown ______ 23 Aldrich Mountains Group, by C. Ervin Brown and T. P. Thayer________ 25 Fields Creek Formation _________________________________ 25 Laycock Graywacke _____________________________________ 26 Murderers Creek Graywacke___-___-_-----_-----__--------_---_- 26 Keller Creek Shale______________________________ 27 Vester Formation, by C. Ervin Brown and T. P. Thayer. ____________ 27 Stockbridge Formation, by E-an Zen_______________________________ 30 Walloomsac Formation, by E-an Zen ___---_-_______-_-_____-_--_ 31 Egremont Phyllite, by E-an Zen___________________________________ 31 Everett Formation, by E-an Zen_ ______________________________ 32 Redefinition of the Rowe Schist in northwestern Massachusetts, by N. L. Hatch, Jr., A. H. Chidester, P. H. Osberg, and S. A. Norton_______ 33 Precambrian and Lower Cambrian formations in the Desert Range, Clark County, Nevada, by John H. Stewart and Harley Barnes_____________ 35 Johnnie Formation.. ________________________________________ 37 Stirling Quartzite...___________________________________________ 39 Wood Canyon Formation_____________________________________ 41 Zabriskie Formation ____________________________________ 41 Puddle Springs Arkose Member of Wind River Formation, by Paul E. Soister______.________---_.__________________.______ 42 Bois Blanc Formation, by William A. Oliver, Jr. ______-_-___-_-__ 46 Clarence Member of the Onondaga Limestone, by William A. Oliver, Jr___ 48 Three members of the Upper Cambrian Nopah Formation in the southern Great Basin, by Robert L. Christiansen and Harley Barnes_-_-___---_ 49 Meduxnekeag Group and Spragueville Formation of Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis Pavlides__-_________--_____-_-____--____ 52 Meduxnekeag Group ______________________________________ 52 Chandler Ridge Formation_______________________________ 54 Carys Mills Formation.____________________________________ 55 Burnt Brook Formation.______--_-__--_--_______________--_ 55 Spragueville Formation_____________________________________ 55 References cited _-_-_-----_____-_-_-_____-----_________-____---- 57 in IV CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. Index map of the Canyon City quadrangle, Oregon_________ A23 2. Diagram showing known and inferred stratigraphic relations between formations within the Columbia River Group and the stratigraphically equivalent Strawberry Volcanics in the Canyon City quadrangle, Oreg-___-_--_________._______ 24 3. Index map to localities in the vicinity of the Aldrich Moun­ tains, Grant County, Oreg______-____________ ________ 28 4. Summary of Lower Jurassic and Upper Triassic rock units in the Aldrich Mountains, Oreg___________________________ 29 5. Correlation of rock units of western Massachusetts (Emerson, 1898, 1917), this report, and southeastern Vermont (Doll and others, 1961)__-____-______-__-_--____._.___ 34 6. Index map and location of measured sections ______________ 36 7. Incomplete columnar section of the Johnnie Formation____ 38 8. Columnar section of the Stirling Quartzite, Wood Canyon Formation, and Zabriskie Quartzite___________________ 40 9. Index map of part of southern Great Basin________________ 50 10. Index map of part ofJMaine showing type localities of new formations described in this report._____________________ 53 TABLES Pasre TABLE 1. Comparison of the Meduxnekeag Formation of former usage with the Meduxnekeag Group.__________________________ A54 2. Summary of revisions of superposition, chronology, and nomen­ clature in the Aroostook Limestone in northern Maine_-____ 56 CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY CHANGES IN STRATIGRAPHIG NOMENCLATURE BY THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 1965 By GEORGE V. COHEE and WALTER S. WEST LISTINGS OF NOMENCLATTJRAL CHANGES In the following listings, the changes in stratigraphic nomenclature are grouped together in the categories of (1) new names adopted for official use, (2) previously used names adopted for official use, (3) names revised, (4) changes in age designation, (5) names reinstated, and (6) names abandoned. The stratigraphic names involved in change are listed alphabetically under each category. The age of the unit, the area in which the name is employed, the title of the report, and the publication in which the change is described, are given. Al >to NEW NAMES ADOPTED FOB OFFICIAL USE IN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPORTS Report In which new name is adoj3ted Year of Name Age Location publi­ Title and authorship Publication (U.S. Geol. cation Survey except as indicated) North Carolina.. ..... 1965 Kiver-Wadesboro Triassic basin, North Carolina, by 6, no. 3. J. F. Conley and G. L. Bain. Map 1-447.. 1966 Group. Jurassic. eastern Oregon, by C. E. Brown and T. P. Thayer. All Molina Meta- Bull. 1194-1... 1965 morphic Complex. Indian Reservation, Arizona, by L. A. Heindl and C, L. Fair. Bull. 1224-D-. 1965 natian). Formations (Upper Ordoviclan) in south-central Kentucky, by G. W. Weir, R. C. Greene, and G. C. Slmmons. Bull. 1194-1-- 1965 Granite. Indian Reservation, Arizona, by L. A. Heindl and C. L. Fair. Bull. 1224-D.. 1965 Member of Ash- natian). Formations (Upper Ordovlcian) in south-central lock Formation). Kentucky, by G. W. Weir, R. C. Greene, and G. C. Simmons. 1965 (of Tater Top River-Wadesboro Triassic basin, North Carolina, by 6, no. 3. Group). J. F. Conley and G. L. Bain. Bull. 1206.. 1965 tlon. County, Maine, by Louis Pavlides. 1965 Essex County, Massachusetts, by R. O. Castle. 1966 diorite. lying Yavapal Series (older Precambrian), central Arizona, by P. M. Blacet. This report, p. A52 1966 mation (of Medux- Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis nekeag Group). Pavlides. Prof. Paper 501-D. 1964 Stade (of Win- Washington, by D. R. Crandell and R. D. Miller. throp Creek Gla- ciation). Bull. 1224-D- 1965 Limestone. (Cinctnnatlan). Formations (Upper Ordoviclan) in south-central Kentucky, by G. W. Weir, R. C. Greene, and G. C. Simmons. Cane Run Bed (of Middle Ordovician ........ .do............. .... The Lexington Limestone (Middle Ordovician) of cen­ Bull. 1224-C.... ..... 1965 Qrier Limestone tral Kentucky, by D. F. B. Black, E. R. Cressman, Member of Lex- and W. C. MacQuown, Jr. Ington Limestone). Carys Mills Forma- Middle Ordovician to Maine.. ______ Meduxnekeag Group and Spragueville Formation of 2966 mation (of Medux- Early Silurian. Aroostook County, northeast Maine, by Louis nekeag Group). Pavlides. Chandler Ridge Ordovician(?) .. ....... .do................. _ .do..... __ ....... ..... _ . _ .. ___ - 1966 Formation (of . Meduxnekeag Group). Chiltepines Member Mesozoic(?) .... ..... Bull. 1194-1...... ......... 1965 (of Pitoikam Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, by L. A. Heindl 1 Formation). andC. L. Fair. Clays Ferry Middle and Late Bull. 1224-B.... ___ - ... 1965 i Formation. Ordovician. in south-central Kentucky, by G. W. Weir and R. C. IB Greene. Cocoraque Forma­ Bull. 1194-H.. _ .. ... 1965 tion. Mountains, Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, by L. A. Heindl. Contreras Conglom­ Mesozoic(?) ... .. do Bull. 1194-1.... ____ .... 1965 1 erate Member (of Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, by L. A. Heindl Pitoikam Forma­ and C. L. Fair. tion). Cowbell Member Early Mississippian ....... Bull. 1224-F .... 1966 1 (of Bprden east-central Kentucky, by G. W. Weir, J. L. Gualtieri, 0 Formation). and S. O. Schlanger. Denny. C onglom- Ordovician(?) ___ . ..... Southeastern Geology, 1965 erate Member (of River- Wadesboro Triassic basin, North Carolina, by v. 6, no. 3. Efland Forma­ J. F. Conley and G. L. Bam. tion). Dobbs Buttes Mem­ Bull. 1194-H..... ..... 1965 ber (of Roskruge Mountains, Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona, by Rhyolite). L. A. Heindl. § Drakes Formation... Late Ordovician (Cincin- Kentucky ............. Calloway Creek Limestone and Ashlock and Drakes Bull. 1224-D . 1965 natian). Formations (Upper Ordovician) in south-central Kentucky, by G. W. Weir, R. C. Greene, and G. C. Simmons. Dry Coyote Con­ Eocene __________ 1966 1 glomerate Bed (of matioh, by P. E. Soister. Puddle Springs Arkose Member ATURB of Wind River Formation). East Canyon Con­ .do... .................. do................. -do.. ... 1966 glomerate Bed (of Puddle Springs Arkose Member of Wind River Formation). Efland Formation... early Paleozoic ... ____ Southeastern Geology, 1965 River-Wadesboro Triassic basin, North Carolina, by v. 6, no. 3. J. F. Conley and G. L. Bam. G3 NEW NAMES ADOPTED FOR OFFICIAL USE IN U.S. GEOLOGICAL
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