Usage:
Hualapai Limestone (AZ*,CA*?,NV*)
Hualapai Limestone Member of Muddy Creek Formation (AZ)
(Formerly Hualpai Limestone.)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Not stated. Displayed prominently along Hualpai [Hualapai] Wash from point where wash joins Lake Mead and continuing southward for about 9 km, Mohave Co., AZ. Distributed over irregular area, measuring 25 mi east-west and comparable distance north-south, Mohave Co., AZ and Clark Co., NV. Named from Hualpai [Hualapai] Wash (Longwell, 1936; Blair and Armstrong, 1979).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
Plateau sedimentary province*
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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