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  • Usage in publication:
    • Carlin Canyon formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Fails, T.G., 1960, Permian stratigraphy at Carlin Canyon, Nevada: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 44, no. 10, p. 1692-1703. [Available online, with subscription, from AAPG archives: http://www.aapg.org/datasystems or http://search.datapages.com]


Summary:

Pg. 1694-1695 (geol. map), 1699-1702. Carlin Canyon formation. Has distinctive banded appearance. Consists mostly of yellow-tan, quartzose calcisiltites with massive beds of brown chert. Thickness about 1,225 feet at type. Conformably overlies Beacon Flat formation; unconformably underlies Tertiary Humboldt formation. Chert beds possibly correlative with Bissell's (1959, SEPM Spec. Pub., no. 7) Rex chert [member] of Park City formation in northeastern Nevada and western Utah. Age is Permian (late Leonardian and Guadalupian?), based on fossils (gastropods, pelecypods). Report includes measured section, geologic map.
Type section: on north side of Humboldt River at Carlin Canyon; top in NE/4 NW/4 NW/4 sec. 13, T. 33 N., R. 53 E., and base in SE/4 NW/4 SE/4 sec. 14, T. 33 N., R. 53 E., [Grindstone Mountain 7.5-min quadrangle], Elko Co., northeastern NV.

Source: Publication.


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

Stewart, J.H., MacMillan, J.R., Nichols, K.M., and Stevens, C.H., 1977, Deep-water upper Paleozoic rocks in north-central Nevada; a study of the type area of the Havallah Formation, IN Stewart, J.H., Stevens, C.H., and Fritsche, A.E., eds., Paleozoic paleogeography of the western United States; Pacific Coast paleogeography symposium I: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Pacific Section, Pacific Coast Paleogeography Symposium, Bakersfield, CA, April 22, 1977, 1, p. 337-347.


Summary:

Age of the Carlin Canyon Formation is Early Permian.

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


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