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Geologic Unit: Goodsprings

Usage:

Goodsprings Dolomite (CA*,NV*)


Geologic age:

Devonian, Middle*
Silurian*
Ordovician*
Cambrian, Late*


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

Named from town of Goodsprings, to south, west, and northwest of which it covers broad area, Goodsprings quadrangle, Clark Co., southeastern NV (Hewett, 1931).


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 ( ).

Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).