- Usage in publication:
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- Desert Range Limestone Member*
- Modifications:
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- Named
- Biostratigraphic dating
- Dominant lithology:
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- Limestone
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. 20-21. Desert Range Limestone Member of Carrara Formation. Name proposed for the uppermost member (of 9). Present in southern Nevada and southeastern California. Is thin-bedded and fossiliferous, black and orange argillaceous limestone with dolomitic partings. Thickness about 20 m but varies considerably and inconsistently. Overlies Jangle Limestone Member of Carrara Formation; gradationally underlies Bonanza King Formation. Contains species of GLOSSOPLEURA (trilobites). Age is Middle Cambrian. (Desert Range Limestone Member of Carrara Formation adopted by the USGS.)
Type locality: Desert Range, about 64 km northwest of Las Vegas, Clark Co., southern NV. Named from Desert Range.
Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX); US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1564, p. 46); Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature, 1979 (USGS Bull. 1502-A, p. A21).
For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.
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