Usage:
McColley Canyon Formation (NV*)
Subunits:
(alphabetical) --all in NV*: Bartine Member, Coils Creek Member, Kobeh Member.
Geologic age:
Early Devonian*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type section: in McColley Canyon [Lat. 40 deg. 11 min. 51 sec. N., Long. 116 deg. 02 min. 25 sec. W.], North Mineral Hill 15-min quadrangle [Sulphur Springs Range, Eureka Co., NV] (Carlisle and others, 1957).
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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