Usage:
Ammonia Tanks Tuff of Timber Mountain Group (CA*,NV*)
Geologic age:
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality [area]: about 0.25 mi north of Ammonia Tanks, Nevada Test Site, and continuing for several mi along south rim of Pahute Mesa, Nye Co., southern NV. Named from Ammonia Tanks (Orkild, 1965).
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.
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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).