- Usage in publication:
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- Bunejug formation*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Basalt
- Andesite
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Named after Bunejug Mountains. Type locality is in west face of 4,886-ft mountain in south-central Bunejug Mountains, secs.33-34 T17N R30E, Churchill Co, NV. Consists of series of basalts and andesites. Maximum thickness is 650 ft. Unconformably overlies Truckee formation and in some places interfingers with it. Underlies pre-Lake Lahontan lacustrine deposits. Is considered to be Pliocene age, perhaps ranging to early Pleistocene in its upper part 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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