- Usage in publication:
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- Hines Tongue
- Modifications:
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- Original reference
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. 141, 143 (fig. 3). Hines Tongue of Reed Formation. A north- and northwest-tapering tongue of quartzite, sandy dolomite, and calcareous sandstone that separates lower and upper unnamed members of Reed Formation south and southeast of type locality of the Reed. Thickness about 800 feet in Waucoba Spring quadrangle; about 50 feet in center of Blanco Mountain quadrangle. Age is Precambrian or Cambrian.
Named from exposures near Hines Road, Waucoba Mountain 15-min quadrangle, Inyo Co., CA.
[GNC remark (ca. 1967, US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1350, p. 334): The USGS currently designates the age of the Hines Tongue of the Reed Dolomite as Precambrian on the basis of a study now in progress.]
[See also C.A. Nelson, 1966a, Geol. map Waucoba Mountain quadrangle, CA, USGS Geol. Quad. Map GQ-528, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500; C.A. Nelson, 1966b, Geol. map Blanco Mountain quadrangle, CA, USGS Geol. Quad. Map GQ-529, 1 sheet, scale 1:62,500.]
Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 334).
- Usage in publication:
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- Hines Tongue
- Modifications:
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- Age modified
- AAPG geologic province:
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- Great Basin province
Summary:
Pg. A18, A61 (fig. 12), A62. Hines Tongue of Reed Dolomite. Age modified from Precambrian(?) --to-- Precambrian.
Source: Publication.
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