- Usage in publication:
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- Decoy Limestone*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Named derived from Decoy, site along Nevada Northern Railroad, Decoy 7.5' quad. Type section designated as 60-m-thick massive, light-gray limestone exposed one km west of Morgan Pass, sec.21 T32N R68E, Morgan Pass 7.5' quad, northern Goshute Mountains, Elko Co, NV. Is equivalent to unit E of Day and others (1987). Is present south of Silver Zone Pass in central Toano Range and in northern Goshute Mountains. Overlies Morgan Pass Formation (new); underlies Shafter Formation (new). No faunas have been recovered; however, unit is bracketed by late Middle Cambrian faunas in adjacent formations. Age is considered Middle Cambrian.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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