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  • Usage in publication:
    • Bonita Canyon Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Bonham, H.F., 1970, Geologic map and sections of a part of the Shoshone Mountains, Lander and Nye Counties, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Map, no. 38, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500


Summary:

Unit is named the Bonita Canyon Formation. Age is Oligocene based on stratigraphic relations.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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