- Usage in publication:
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- Chicken Creek Formation
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- Dominant lithology:
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- Ash
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. 497-506 (Discussion of potassium-argon K-Ar ages of some western Tertiary floras). Sample of Chicken Creek Formation is from 2-foot bed of biotite rhyolite ash 5 feet above uppermost of the 10 florules that comprise Bull Run flora. Radiometric age of 35.2 +/-1 Ma (K-Ar method on biotite) indicates this florule is earliest Chadronian [early Oligocene] or transitional Eocene/Oligocene and florules stratigraphically below it are Duchesnean, or latest Eocene. Name taken from Axelrod manuscript.
[Type locality not stated.] Notable exposures 30 yards north of junction of Highway 11 and road to Cornucopia mining district, in NE/4 sec. 11, T. 42 N., R. 52 E., Bull Run 15-min quadrangle, Elko Co., northeastern NV.
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