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  • Usage in publication:
    • Paiute Ridge member*
  • Modifications:
    • Original reference
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Byers, F.M., Jr., Barnes, Harley, Poole, F.G., and Ross, R.J., Jr., 1961, Revised subdivision of Ordovician System at the Nevada Test Site and vicinity, Nevada; Article 189, IN Geological Survey Research 1961; short papers in the geologic and hydrologic sciences; Articles 147-292: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 424-C, p. C106-C110.


Summary:

Pg. C108, C110 (fig. 189.1). Paiute Ridge member of Antelope Valley limestone of Pogonip group. Basal member of Antelope Valley limestone; underlies Ranger Mountains member (new). Overlies Ninemile formation. Consists of gray limestone with silty limestone that weathers brown. Etched network forms "chicken-wire" pattern. Contains many straight-coned cephalopods, and notably brachiopod ORTHAMBONITES cf. O SUBALATA, and trilobites LACHNOSTOMA LATUCELSUM, KIRKELLA DECLINITA, GONIOTELLINA or BATHYURUS sp. Thickness 350 feet. (=units E and F of Johnson and Hibbard, 1957, USGS Bull. 1021-K.) Age is Early and Middle Ordovician.
Type locality: Paiute Ridge, [Lat. 37 deg. 04 min. 13 sec. N., Long. 115 deg. 57 min. 58 sec. W., Paiute Ridge 7.5-min quadrangle], Nye Co., southern NV.
Aysees Peak measured section (loc. 2), [Buried Hills area, approx. Lat. 36 deg. 52 min. 30 sec. N., Long. 115 deg. 48 min. 52 sec. W., eastern central Frenchman Lake 15-min quadrangle (Frenchman Flat quadrangle), Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range / Desert National Wilderness Range, Lincoln Co., southern NV].
[Additional locality information from USGS GNIS database and USGS historical topographic map collection TopoView, accessed Memorial Day, 2018.]

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 551).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Paiute Ridge Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Mapped
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Limestone
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Byers, F.M., Jr., and Barnes, Harley, 1967, Geologic map of the Paiute Ridge quadrangle, Nye and Lincoln Counties, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map, GQ-577, 1 sheet, scale 1:24,000


Summary:

Paiute Ridge Member of Antelope Valley Limestone of Pogonip Group. Mapped in Nye County, Nevada, where it is 370 feet thick. Consists of gray, thin- to thick-bedded limestone. Etched network of brown silty limestone forms "chicken-wire" pattern on bedding surface and perpendicular to bedding. Straight-coned cephalopods common. Underlies Ranger Mountains Member of Antelope Valley Limestone. Overlies Ninemile Formation. Age is Early and Middle Ordovician.

Source: Publication; US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 551).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Paiute Ridge Member*
  • Modifications:
    • Age modified
    • Biostratigraphic dating
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Great Basin province
Publication:

Ross, R.J., Jr., Jaanusson, V., and Friedman, I., 1975, Lithology and origin of Middle Ordovician calcareous mudmound at Meiklejohn Peak, southern Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 871, 48 p.


Summary:

Paiute Ridge Member of Antelope Valley Limestone. Recognized in southern Nevada. Age changed from Early and Middle Ordovician --to-- Middle Ordovician, based on studies of mudmounds with STROMATACTIS structures.

Source: GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX); Changes in stratigraphic nomenclature, 1975 (USGS Bull. 1422-A, p. A30-A31).


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