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  • Usage in publication:
    • Caesar Canyon limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Kay, Marshall, 1960, Paleozoic continental margin in central Nevada, western United States, IN Rasmussen, L.B., and Larsen, Gunnar, Part XII, Regional paleogeography: International Geological Congress, 21st, Report, Copenhagen, 1960, pt. 12, p. 94-103.


Summary:

Unit is named the Caesar Canyon limestone [shown in figure as Caesar C.]. Age is Ordovician.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Caesar Canyon Limestone
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Kay, Marshall, 1962, Classification of Ordovician Chazyan shelly and graptolite sequences from central Nevada, IN Short Note: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 73, no. 11, p. 1421-1430.


Summary:

Caesar Canyon Limestone is [Late] Ordovician (Caradocian; Bolarian) based on fossils [graptolites].

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Caesar Canyon Limestone*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Ross, R.J., Jr., and Shaw, F.C., 1972, Distribution of the Middle Ordovician Copenhagen Formation and its trilobites in Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 749, 33 p.


Summary:

Caesar Canyon Limestone is late Middle Ordovician based on fossils [graptolites].

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


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