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Geologic Units: Eastgate
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Eastgate Volcanics
  • Modifications:
    • First used
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Barrows, K.J., 1971, Geology of the southern Desatoya Mountains, Churchill and Lander Counties, Nevada: Dissertation Abstracts, v. 32, p. 5865-5866.


Summary:

First use of the Eastgate Volcanics. Age is Miocene [inferred] based on stratigraphic relationships.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Eastgate Volcanics
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Quartz latite
    • Tuff
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Axelrod, D.I., 1985, Miocene floras from the Middlegate basin, west-central Nevada: University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, v. 129, 279 p.


Summary:

Eastgate Volcanics of Barrows (1971, unpub. PhD thesis) is [probably] named for exposures in the Eastgate Basin, Churchill County, Nevada. Described in text as dark-colored altered quartz latite flows and tuffs. Thickness of unit is not stated. Unconformably underlies the early Miocene Middlegate Formation along the Eastgate fault. Age is Miocene [inferred]. Report includes geologic map and fossil lists.

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


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