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Geologic Unit: Jakes Creek
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Jakes Creek formation
  • Modifications:
    • Incidental mention
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Steele, Grant, 1960, Stratigraphic interpretation of the Pennsylvanian-Permian systems of the eastern Great Basin: Dissertation Abstracts, v. 20, no. 12, p. 4635., Univ. of Washington PhD dissert., 1959


Summary:

Jakes Creek formation. Incidental mention in stratigraphic interpretation of Pennsylvanian-Permian systems of eastern Great Basin. In list of formations [sequence not stated], Jakes Creek follows Strathearn and precedes Carbon Ridge. Age is Pennsylvanian. Present in eastern Nevada and western Utah.
Type locality and origin of name not stated.

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