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Geologic Unit: Mexican Dam
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  • Usage in publication:
    • Mexican Dam Bed
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Davis, J.O., 1978, Quaternary tephrochronology of the Lake Lahontan area, Nevada and California: Nevada Archaeological Survey Research Paper, no. 7, 137 p.


Summary:

Unit is named the Mexican Dam Bed. Occurs at two localities above the highest shoreline of glacial Lake Lahontan, near Carson City, NV. Consists of white, rhyolitic tephra containing elongated glass shards. Overlies the Dibekulewe Bed (new). Age is Pleistocene. (B1565)

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


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