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Geologic Unit: Pancake Summit

Usage:

Pancake Summit Tuff (NV*)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Oligocene*


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

Type section: 0.8 km north of U.S. Highway 50 on boundary between sec. 25, T. 18 N., R. 55 E., and sec. 30, T. 18 N., R. 56 E., White Pine Co., NV (Nolan and others, 1974).


AAPG geologic province:

Great Basin province*


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 ([ ]).