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  • Usage in publication:
    • Jenkins Peak Formation
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Conglomerate
    • Quartzite
    • Sandstone
    • Limestone
    • Schist
    • Slate
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Bushnell, K.O., 1967, Geology of the Rowland quadrangle, Elko County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin, no. 67, 38 p., (incl. geologic map, scale 1:62,500)


Summary:

Pg. 12 (table 2). Table 2 is a stratigraphic section of Mountain City quadrangle by E.C. Stephens (1946, unpub. rept.). Jenkins Peak Formation consists of conglomerate, quartzite, sandstone, limestone, schists, and slates. Overlies Rio Tinto Formation with angular unconformity. May correlate with Banner Formation. Age is Paleozoic.
[Type locality not stated. Origin of name not stated.] Present in Elko Co., northern NV.

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