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  • Usage in publication:
    • China Mountain formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Ferguson, H.G., Muller, S.W., and Roberts, R.J., 1951, Geology of the Winnemucca quadrangle: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-11, 1 sheet, scale 1:125,000


Summary:

Unit is named the China Mountain formation. Age is Early and Middle(?) Triassic.

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


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

McKee, E.H., and Burke, D.B., 1972, Fission-track age bearing on the Permian-Triassic boundary and time of the Sonoma orogeny in north-central Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, no. 7, p. 1949-1952.


Summary:

Age of the China Mountain Formation is Early Triassic.

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


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