Usage:
Lovell Wash Member of Horse Spring Formation (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in Lovell Wash, Muddy Mountains, stratigraphically above Bitter Ridge Limestone Member of Horse Spring Formation, Lat. 36 deg. 12 min. 45 sec. N., Long. 114 deg. 42 min. 30 sec. W., Hoover Dam 15-min quadrangle, Clark Co., NV (Bohannon, 1984).
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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