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Geologic Unit: Funeral
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Funeral fanglomerate*
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Fanglomerate
    • Basalt
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Noble, L.F., 1941, Structural features of the Virgin Spring area, Death Valley, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 52, no. 7, p. 941-1000.


Summary:

Funeral fanglomerate [T.P. Thayer, unpublished]. Composed principally of fanglomerate and other arid-basin deposits, but it contains interbedded flows of basalt. Thickness 3,000 feet. Unconformably overlies all older formations; unconformably underlies flat-lying Pleistocene beds in Amargosa Valley. Age is Pliocene(?).
Typically exposed between the base of Funeral Range and Ryan, Inyo Co., CA. Type locality: Not evaluated to date.

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


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Funeral formation*
  • Modifications:
    • Revised
    • Age modified
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Drewes, Harald, 1963, Geology of the Funeral Peak quadrangle, California, on the east flank of Death Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 413, 78 p. [Available online from the USGS PubsWarehouse: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/pubs/pp/pp413]


Summary:

Funeral fanglomerate (Nolan, 1941) is revised to Funeral formation based on the lithologic variability of the unit. Is [informally] divided into three interfingering members: (1) conglomerate member (conglomerate, sandstone, silt); (2) megabreccia member (coarse breccia and large masses of coherent, shattered rocks); (3) andesite and basalt member (flows, dikes, agglomerate). Unconformably overlies [unspecified] rhyolite and rhyodacite volcanic rocks and the Furnace Creek formation; unconformably underlies younger gravels. Age is Pliocene and Pleistocene(?).

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


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  • Usage in publication:
    • Funeral Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Geochronologic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Mojave basin
Publication:

Marvin, R.F., Mehnert, H.H., and Naeser, C.W., 1989, U.S. Geological Survey radiometric ages; Compilation "C"; Part three, California and Nevada: Isochron/West, no. 52, p. 3-11.


Summary:

Pg. 4, geologic time scale (inside front cover). Funeral Formation. Sample collected from a fine-grained, subophitic, olivine basalt in the upper part of Funeral Formation. Whole-rock K-Ar age 4.0 +/-0.1 Ma [Pliocene]; calculated age is a minimum age. Sample no. USGS(D)TSV-383-81. Sample locality: an old railroad cut about 2 mi southeast of Travertine Point, Lat. 36 deg. 21 min. 12 sec. N., Long. 116 deg. 38 min. 48 sec. W., in T. 26 N., R. 3 E., Ryan 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., CA. Collected by W.J. Carr. Age determined by USGS personnel in Denver, CO (R.F. Marvin, H.H. Mehnert, E.A. Brandt). Decay constants, recommended by the IUGS Subcommission on Geochronology (Steiger and Jager, 1977, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 36, p. 359-362) are used.

Source: Publication.


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