Usage:
Fallon Formation (NV*)
Fallon Alloformation (NV)
Geologic age:
Holocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Lowlands of Carson Desert near Fallon, Churchill Co., west-central NV (Morrison, 1961).
Type locality (lower member): Fallon Naval Auxiliary Air Station reservation (as of 1950-not as subsequently enlarged), in secs. 14, 15, 22, and 23, T. 18 N., R. 29 E. Plain on which station is located is compound delta of Carson River that was built into the first and second Fallon lakes (Morrison, 1964).
Type locality (upper member): Raymond Cushman Ranch, in secs. 28, 29, and 33, T. 18 N., R. 29 E (Morrison, 1964).
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 ([ ]).