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  • Usage in publication:
    • Dibekulewe Bed
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Davis, J.O., 1978, Quaternary tephrochronology of the Lake Lahontan area, Nevada and California: Nevada Archaeological Survey Research Paper, no. 7, 137 p.


Summary:

Unit is named the Dibekulewe Bed. Occurs west of Stewart, in the Lake Lahontan area, NV. Consists of corroded, phenocryst-poor tephra particles enclosed in fine sand and silt. Underlies the Mexican Dam Bed (new). Age is Pleistocene. (B1565)

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


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