Usage:
Wahmonie Formation (NV*)
Geologic age:
Tertiary*
Miocene*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section (composite): on east and south sides of Wahmonie Flat, at Mount Salyer, and in area between Cane Spring and Hampel Hill, Nevada Test Site, Nye Co., southwestern NV (Poole and others, 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 ([ ]).