- Usage in publication:
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- Deer Park Andesite
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. 275 (fig. 2). Deer Park Andesite. Generalized Cenozoic section of Grant Range lists following Quaternary units (ascending): Local breccia sheets; Perish Spring Dacite (new); Deer Park Andesite, 0 to 500(?) feet thick; local breccia sheets. Age is Quaternary.
Grant Range is in Nye Co., east-central NV.
[Detailed stratigraphy in Scott (1965, PhD thesis, Rice Univ., available online http://hdl.handle.net/1911/14236).]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 199); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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