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Geologic Unit: Maris

Usage:

No current usage.
(†Maris Rhyolite (NV) is synonym of Oddie Rhyolite. See Oddie.)


Geologic age:

Tertiary
Miocene, late or Pliocene


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Maris "pebble" mine, Manhattan district, about 8 mi northeast of Manhattan, east flank of Toquima Range, north Nye Co., south-central NV (Ferguson, 1924, p. 138).


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.

"No current usage" (†) implies that a name has been abandoned or has fallen into disuse. Former usage and, if known, replacement name given in parentheses ( ).

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