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  • Usage in publication:
    • Desert Valley Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Reso, Anthony, 1963, Composite columnar section of exposed Paleozoic and Cenozoic rocks in the Pahranagat Range, Lincoln County, Nevada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 74, no. 7, p. 901-918.


Summary:

Unit is named the Desert Valley Formation. Age is Late Cambrian based on fossils [brachiopods].

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


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

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