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  • Usage in publication:
    • Prosser Creek alluvium member (informal) [?]
    • Prosser Creek alluvium [member] (informal?) [?]
  • Modifications:
    • Named
  • Dominant lithology:
    • Alluvium
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Birkeland, P.W., 1962, Pleistocene volcanism and deformation of the Truckee area, California, IN U.S. Highway 40, Sacramento to Reno, Dixie Valley and Sand Springs Range, Nevada; guidebook to the annual field trip: Geological Society of Sacramento Annual Field Trip Guidebook, Annual Field Trip, June 9-10, 1962, p. 59-63.


Summary:

zzzzz[Discrepancy: GNC records (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1350) indicate author proposed name for an informal member of Lousetown Formation. GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX) indicate author's proposal is not clearly stated; Prosser Creek is shown on sketch map as one of three informally? named [members] in the Lousetown. --unresolved.]
GNC records (US geologic names lexicon, USGS Bull. 1350): Pg. 61, fig. 2 (map). Prosser Creek alluvium member of Lousetown Formation. Informal term applied to alluvium deposited when latite flows along east side of Truckee basin entered drainage causing widespread aggradation upstream. Age is early Pleistocene. Mapped in Prosser Creek area. northeastern CA. Also exposed along Prosser Dam Road, Truckee area, north of Lake Tahoe. northeastern CA.
GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX, December 16, 1988): Prosser Creek alluvium [member] of Lousetown Formation. [Named for Prosser Creek, east of Boca Reservoir, Truckee 15-min quadrangle, Nevada Co., CA. Type locality not designated.] Occurs in Prosser Creek area and along Prosser Dam Road. Shown on sketch map as informally [!] named [member] of Lousetown Formation. Is approximately 120 feet thick. Overlies andesite bedrock, Truckee(?) Formation, and Lousetown flows that crop out along west side of Truckee basin and is in turn overlain by glacial deposits. Evidence demonstrates that Prosser Creek alluvium [member] was laid down in response to damming of drainage by Hirschdale flow [member] (new) (Lousetown Formation). Age is early Pleistocene. Also referred to as Prosser Creek Alluvium [Member] of Lousetown Formation in Menlo GNULEX.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 601); GNU records (USGS DDS-6; Menlo GNULEX).


Map showing publication footprint
  • Usage in publication:
    • Prosser Creek alluvium member
  • Modifications:
    • Areal extent
  • AAPG geologic province:
    • Sierra Nevada province
Publication:

Birkeland, P.W., 1963, Pleistocene volcanism and deformation of the Truckee area, north of Lake Tahoe, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 74, no. 12, p. 1453-1464.


Summary:

Pg. 1453-1464. Prosser Creek alluvium member of Lousetown Formation. Overlies andesite bedrock, Truckee(?) formation, and Lousetown flows that crop out along west side of [Truckee] basin and is in turn overlain by glacial deposits. Maximum thickness about 120 feet. Evidence demonstrates that Prosser Creek alluvium was laid down in response to damming of drainage by Hirschdale flow (new). Age is early Pleistocene.

Source: US geologic names lexicon (USGS Bull. 1350, p. 601).


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