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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dry Lake Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Pumice
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Noble, D.C., Anderson, R.E., Ekren, E.B., and O'Connor, J.T., 1964, Thirsty Canyon Tuff of Nye and Esmeralda Counties, Nevada; Article 126, IN Geological Survey Research 1963; short papers in geology and hydrology; Articles 122-170: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 475-D, p. D24-D27. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp475D]


Summary:

Pg. D24-D27. Dry Lake Member of Thirsty Canyon Tuff (new). Crops out northeast and southeast of Dry Lake and north of Tolicha Peak (fig.1). About 25 percent of a typical outcrop is composed of black to brown coarsely vesicular blocks of pumice as much as 3 feet in diameter. Only uppermost part of member is devitrified. Maximum thickness 30 feet. Overlies Trail Ridge Member (new); underlies Gold Flat Member (new). Age is Pliocene on basis of age of Thirsty Canyon Tuff. Report includes small distribution map.
Type locality: northeast of Dry Lake, Lat. 37 deg. 26 min. N., Long. 116 deg. 41 min. W., Black Mountain 15-min quadrangle, Nye Co., southern NV. Section extending from Trail Ridge Member through Gold Flat Member is exposed. Named from Dry Lake, in T. 6 S., R. 47 E., Nye Co., NV.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 223); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX, Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dry Lake Member
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
Publication:

Rogers, C.L., Ekren, E.B., Noble, D.C., and Weir, J.E., 1968, Geologic map of the northern half of the Black Mountain quadrangle, Nye County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Series Map, I-545, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500


Summary:

Dry Lake Member of Thirsty Canyon Tuff not mapped in its type area (in vicinity of Dry Lake, T. 6 S., R. 47 E., Nye County, Nevada). Its rocks are assigned to underlying lithologically similar Trail Ridge member. The following subdivisions of the Thirsty Canyon are mapped (ascending): tuff of Rocket Wash, Spearhead, Trail Ridge, Gold Flat, and Labyrinth Canyon Members.
[GNU remark (Sept. 14, 1988, USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX): Apparently Dry Lake was not considered to be abandoned.]

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX, Denver GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dry Lake Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Marvin, R.F., Mehnert, H.H., and McKee, E.H., 1973, A summary of radiometric ages of Tertiary volcanic rocks in Nevada and eastern California; Part III, Southeastern Nevada: Isochron/West, no. 6, p. 1-30.


Summary:

Dry Lake Member of Thirsty Canyon Tuff. Sample from Thirsty Canyon area, east of Black Mountain, Lat. 37 deg. 18 min. N., Long. 116 deg. 35 min. W., Nye County, Nevada. K-Ar age on sanidine 6.2 +/-0.2 Ma. [Age is Miocene based on time scale of Berggren (1972, Lethaia, v. 5, no. 2, p. 195-215).]

Source: Modified from GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Dry Lake Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Not used
Publication:

Noble, D.C., Vogel, T.A., Weiss, S.I., Erwin, J.W., McKee, E.H., and Younker, L.W., 1984, Stratigraphic relations and source areas of ash-flow sheets of the Black Mountain and Stonewall Mountain volcanic centers, Nevada, IN Calderas and related volcanic rocks: Journal of Geophysical Research, B, Solid Earth and Planets, Symposium on Calderas and related volcanic rocks; the Krakatau centennial; a part of the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 1983, v. 89, no. 10, p. 8593-8602.


Summary:

Not clear, at present, if Dry Lake Member of Thirsty Canyon Tuff is a valid stratigraphic unit and if it predates or postdates Trail Ridge Member of Thirsty Canyon Tuff. Its rocks were assigned to the lithologically similar Trail Ridge Member by Rogers and others (1968) because a cooling break was not found between it and the Trail Ridge.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Denver GNULEX).


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