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

Regnier, Jerome, 1960, Cenozoic geology in the vicinity of Carlin, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 71, no. 8, p. 1189-1210, (incl. geologic map, scale 1:125,000)


Summary:

Unit is named the Carlin formation. Age is [early Pliocene] early Clarendonian based on fossils [vertebrates].

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


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

Evans, J.G., 1972, Preliminary geologic map of the Welches Canyon quadrangle, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map, MF-326, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000


Summary:

Carlin Formation of Regnier (1960) is late Miocene and(or) early Pliocene.

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


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